Stabat Mater sung by the BBC Chorus
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate with George Thalben-Ball (organ)
Jean Mercure recites poems with piano accompaniment by Germaine Mounier
Jules Laforgue: Complainte du Rod de Thule; Excuse macabre
Marcel Riautord: Oui Papa
Paul Fort: La Vieille; Complainte du Moulin de St. Pierre; La Jeune Veuve de la Fontaine
First of two programmes
Quintet in C (K.515) played by the Amadeus String Quartet:
Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin)
Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
First of five recitals of Mozart's string quintets
A monthly review of current questions in architecture and planning
2-Urban Spaces by Frederick Gifoberd , F.R.I.B.A.
The speaker, who is a member of the Town Planning Institute, considers town design as the creation of spaces for urban living rather than the planning of roads and buildings. He thinks that most planners unduly neglect this aspect, and shows how spatial design can transform the urban environment from squalor and disorder to a new visual beauty.
Symphony No. 9, in D minor
(The Choral)
Irmgard Seefried (soprano)
Elisabeth Hongen (contralto)
Walter Ludwig (tenor)
Boris Christoff (bass)
Chorus of the Viennese Friends of Music
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Herbert von Karajan
A study of the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi as a child and in early manhood
Written for broadcasting by Henry Reed
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall
andOthers taking part:
Joan Hart , Beryl Calder
Malcolm Hayes David Markham Robert Marsden Lydia Sherwood and Barbara Trevor
Time: 1808-22. Scene: Recanati and Macerata in E. Italy
Piano Sonata No. 6 played by Frank Merrick
Third of five recitals of Prokofiev's piano sonatas
by Michael Oakeshott , Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford
First of six talks in which speakers with a wide experience of university affairs describe what. in their view. should be the nature and function of a university in contemporary society
Chorale No. 3, in A minor played by Marcel Dupre (organ) on gramophone records