Quartet in D minor
(Death and the Maiden) played by the Amadeus String Quartet:
Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin)
Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
Last of seven recitals of Schubert's string quartets
The Atom by Sir Lawrence Bragg, O.B.E., M.C., F.R.S. , Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics in the University of Cambridge
Fifteenth of sixteen talks by various speakers on the origins and results of the Scientific Revolution
An account of the repercussions of ' Das Kapital ' among the Russian Revolutionaries during the lifetime of Karl Marx , from its publication in 1867 to his death in 1883 (Continued innext column)
Based on material published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow, selected and arranged for broadcasting by Isaac Deutscher with Ernest Jay , Carleton Hobbs
S. A. Bray , Bernard Rebel
M. Visnak. Hjordis Roubiczek
Edited and produced by Robert Gittings
Joan Cross (soprano)
Anne Wood (contralto)
Peter Pears (tenor)
London Philharmonic Choir
(Chorus-Master, Frederic Jackson )
Choir of boys from the London
Schools Music Association
(Lambeth Branch)
(Trained by Janet Evans and R. T. Taylor )
London Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, David Wise )
Conductor, Eduard van Beinum
Edmund Spenser
Talk by Enid Welsford , Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge
‛ ‟Sweet Spenser moving through his cloudy Heaven " is an invention of the Romantics; the real Spenser was a sensible man of affairs and a serious thinker.' The speaker illustrates her view by analysing the philosophic implications and didactic purpose of Spenser's poetry.
Third of a series of talks
The Art of Fugue (Part 2) played by the London String Trio:
Maria Lidka (violin)
Watson Forbes (viola) Vivian Joseph (cello)
James Whitehead
(viola da gamba)
A programme of readings illustrating some of the poet's central beliefs
Extracts chosen and introduced by Enid Welsford
Read by George Rylands
Sonata No. 1, in A minor, Op. 105 played by Frederick Grinke (violin)
Kendall Taylor (piano)
Schumann's Violin Sonata No. 2:, March 29
by Roy Pascal , Professor of German, Birmingham University
Third of six talks in which speakers present their own view of what the nature and function of a university should be in contemporary society
String Quartet. Op. ]21 played by the Pro Arte Quartet on gramophone records