Harold Craxton (piano)
Second of two programmes

Bernard Wall talks about the effect on literature of the meeting between these two writers

Joseph Szigeti (violin)
Pierre Fournier (cello)
Artur Schnabel (piano)
Part 1
The Brahms-Schubert commemoration concerts of 1047 provided an excellent opportunity of comparing the two composers as writers of chamber music. Over the whole series one perhaps felt inclined to award first place to Brahms, for a continuous record of solid worth (always remembering that the inclusion of the string quartets might have altered the picture considerably); but in several concerts Schubert easily held his own, and in this particular one may be said to have taken the honours. In the first and last movements of the Trio in C the somewhat unpromising thematic material is not entirely redeemed by Brahms' undeniable ability to build a satisfying structure; but in the deservedly popular Trio in B flat any slight formal defects pass unnoticed amidst the inexhaustible flow of melodic inspiration.-Deryck Cooke

Talk by the Rev. W. M. Merchant , Lecturer in English Language and Literature, in the University College, Cardiff

by Henrik Ibsen
Adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pughe from a translation by William Archer
With Franklin Dyall, Cathleen Nesbitt, Gladys Young
(Recording of broadcast on August 12, 1946, in the Home Service)
To be repeated on Saturday at 7.15
John Fernald writes on page 11
Ibsen's 'When We Dead Wake' June 6 and 8

Part 3 of the ' Oresteia ' of Aeschylus
Translated into French by Paul Claudel
Music by Darius Milhaud
Introduced by Edward Clark
Fates. Athenian people
Combined Chorus of the Flemish and French Departments of I.N.R. (Chorus-Masters: Jan van Bouwel
René Mazy .Ben van Lysebeth ) Symphony Orchestra of I.N.R.
Conductor. Franz -Andre
Production by Paul Collaer

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