Quartet in A, Op. 18 No. 5 played by the Hurwitz String Quartet:
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin)
Granville Jones (violin) Kenneth Essex (viola)
Terence Weil (cello)
An illustrated talk by Leonard Cassini on Kabalevsky's music and philosophy with Ivry Gitlis (violin)
Mass : Ave Maria Stella sung by the BBC Midland Chorus
Conductor, James Denny
From St. Alban's, Bordesley
Second ot four programmes of choral music by Victoria
by Professor W. B. Stanford , of Trinity College, Dublin
The speaker describes the varying treatment the theme of Ulysses has received in the centuries that lie between Homer and James Joyce. This is a revised version of the lecture delivered by Professor Stanford to the Classical Association last year.
Geoffrey Gilbert (flute)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham , Bt.
Part 1: Mozart
Symphony No. 39. in E flat (K.543)
9.3 app. Flute Concerto in D (K.314)
Talk by Peter MacCarthy
The speaker is head of the Department of Phonetics in the University of Leeds. He sketches the strange history of English spelling and puts the case for reform, suggesting that it is particularly important now not only for English people but for international understanding.
Part 2: Sibelius
Suite: Pelleas et Milisande
10.7 app. Symphony No. 6, in D minor
Natalie Moya reads the conclusion of the story by James Joyce
The London Consort of Viols:
Harry Danks (treble viol)
Stanley Wootton (treble viol)
Jacqueline Townshend (tenor viol)
Sylvia Putterill (tenor viol)
Henry Revell (bass viol)
Robert Donington (treble viol)
Consort Music
Fantasy No. 1 a 6 In Nomine No. 3 a 5 Fantasy a 4 In Nomine No. 5 a 5 Pavan and Galliard a 6 Fantasy No. 2 a 6 Programme edited by Robert Donington
Thirteenth of a series of programmes
Byrd's chamber music for viols is neither so extensive nor so important as that of some of his juniors, who made this field (as Byrd did not) their chief study. But the masterpieces which it does include are very characteristic, with all Byrd's subtlety of rhythm and frequent strangeness of harmony.
A fantasy is a free play of fugal themes, especially free in the case of Byrd, who breaks into snatches of popular melody or complete dance tunes on several occasions. An In Nomine is a fantasy around the slow notes of a beautiful Gregorian chant. A pavan is a dignified four-four dance; a gailiard, its gayer three-four transformation.
This programme is identical with that broadcast last night by a small string orchestra. Tonight the works are being played on viols, for which Byrd originally wrote them. Robert Donington
Philip Carr gives Ms reminis cences of Burne-Jones, who was a family friend and painted him In his childhood
