George Armitage (tenor) Harold Child (baritone)
Josephine Lee (piano)
Tenor:
Down by the Salley Gardens; Carol of the Skiddaw Yowes; The Singer; I will go with my father a-ploughing
Baritone:
Desire in Spring; Severn Meadows; Hawk and Buckle; An Epitaph; The boat is chafing; The fields are full
Tenor:
All night under the moon; You are my sky; Ha'nacker Mill
Second of two programmes
Talk by Alan Pryce Jones on the disappearance of literary reviews
General editor, Gerald Abraham
61-The Rise of the String Quartet
The Blech String Quartet:
Harry Blech (violin)
Lionel Bentley (violin) Keith Cummings (viola) Douglas Cameron (cello)
Introduced by Alec Robertson
Including music by Richter, Starzer. and Haydn
by Compton Mackenzie
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
Variations and Fugue on a theme of Handel, Op. 24 played by Cor de Groot (piano)
Talk by Professor
Clement Professor C.J. Webb
Friedrich von Hiigel , Baron of the Holy Roman Empire, died on January 27, 1925. He was author of The Mystical Element in Religion, The Reality of God, and other works of theology, and through these and his other activities exercised a notable influence within the Christian community. Professor Webb gives a critical appreciation of the work of his old friend.
Mass for five voices sung by the Schola Polyphonica
Director, Henry Washington
Tenth of a series of programmes
15th-17th Centuries
Charles d'Orleans: En regardant vers le pays de France; Le temps a laissé son manteau
Villon: Le grand testament; L'epitaph Louise Labi : Two sonnets
Ronsard: Marie, levez-vous; Quand vous serez bien vieille; Bel aubepin
Du Bellay: Malheureux I'an, le mois;
Heureux qui. comme Ulysse
D'Aubigné: Extracts from Les
Tragiques
Readers: Pamela Stirling and Michel St. Denis
First of four programmes
Richard Lewis (tenor) Jean Pougnet (violin)
Douglas Cameron (cello) Marie Korchinska (harp)
Members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Clarence Rayhould
Talk by Niall Rankin
Colonel A. N. T. Rankin has travelled many thousands of miles to the Antarctic and to North America to study the behaviour of sea birds. Recently he returned from the Antarctic where he was watching albatrosses and penguins from a base in South Georgia. In Norlh America his interest was in ducks and geese. At his home in the Island of Mull he is building up a live collection of every kind of European and N. American duck and goose.