BBC Chorus
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate George Thalben-Ball (organ)
Part 1
Qui seminant in lacrimis, for mixed chorus and organ
Ossa arida, for male chorus and organ duet (George Thalben-Ball and Cyril Gell , organ duet)
Prelude and Fugue on BACH, for organ
Christopher Fry discusses the problems of the dramatist in the contemporary theatre
Mr. Fry is author of The Lady's Not for Burning and of Venus Observed, which is now running in London concurrently with Ring Round the Moon, his translation from the French of Jean Anouilh.
(Concert continued)
Via Crucis
The 14 Stations of the Cross for solo voices, chorus, organ
(Margaret Godley , Margaret Rees. sopranos: Maude Baker , contralto; Bradshaw MacMillan , tenor; Stanley Riley , Leonard Hubbard , basses)
Ninth of a series of programmes devised by Humphrey Searle
by Sir William Hamilton Fyfe
The speaker holds that undeserved oblivion has overtaken the Greek critic whose work waited fifteen centuries to achieve fame throughout Europe.
Walter Lear (saxophone)
The Leighton. Lucas Orchestra
(Leader, Good )
Conductor, Leighton Lucas
A play
Adapted for broadcasting by John Keir Cross with Robert Harris as Richard Rowan , a writer
Pianist. Cicely Hoye
Produced by Donald McWhinnie
Scene: At Merrion and Ranelagh , suburbs of Dublin.' Summer 1912
Quartet in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 played by the Amadeus String Quartet:
Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin)
Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
Eighth of a series of recitals of Beethoven's string quartets
Kathleen Raine talks about Nora Wydembruck 's book Rilke, Man and Poet '