Illustrated talk by Sir Arthur Bliss on his Colour Symphony, which is to be broadcast in the second part of the orchestral concert tonight at 9.50
Pianists:
Winifred Davey and John Wills

by Sir Hubert Parry sung by the BBC Midland Chorus
Conducted by Leslie Woodgate
There is an old belief
I know my soul hath power My soul, there is a country Never, weather-beaten sail
At the round earth's imagined corners Lord. let me know mine end followed by an interlude at 6.45

Talk by Mollie Sands
The speaker gives an account of the Londoner's changing taste in outdoor amusements over the last two hundred years. She considers that the 1951 Festival Gardens in Battersea Park, far from being an innovation, may be the only true successor to London's eighteenth-century riverside gardens.

Quartet in A
(K.464) played by the Martin String Quartet:
David Martin (violin)
Neville Marriner (violin) Eileen Grainger (viola)
Bernard Richards (cello)

An allegory in verse by Kathleen Raine
The music composed and conducted by Antony Hopkins
The Showmen:
Marius Goring and Anthony Jacobs
Chorus: Robert Marsden
Flora Nielsen (mezzo-soprano)
René Soames (tenor)
Owen Brannigan (bass-baritone)
BBC Chorus (men's voices)
BBC Opera Orchestra
Production by Douglas Cleverdon

Ivry Gitlis (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
(Leader, Manoug Parikian )
Conducted by Royalton Kisch
Part 1
To some modern music our ears have gradually become accustomed, but much of it still remains an enigma to the average listener. Of recent years Hindemith, like Bartok, has shown that he is willing to meet the public half way, by clarifying his style. He has declared this intention himself in the explanatory introduction to his recent revision of the twenty-seven-year-old song-cycle Das Marienleben. An outstanding example of this process is the Violin Concerto, written in 1939 and first performed in this country by Denis East with the Chelsea Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Norman Del Mar. Built up of simple and lyrical themes, it has three movements-Mässig bewegte Halbe, Langsam, and Lebhaft. Deryck Cooke

Talk by C. P. FitzGerald , of the Department of Oriental Studies at the Australian National University, who has recently returned from China.

Philharmonia Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Arthur Bliss
Part 2

Second of two programmes

Eugenia Zareska (soprano)
Marian Zigmunt (bass)
Frederick Stone (accompanist)
Campoli (violin)
James Whitehead (cello)
Franz Reizenstein (piano)
Songs: (Eugenia Zareska )
Greeting
Lithuanian Song The Ring
The Handsome Lad Madrigal
Trio in G minor, Op. 8
Songs: (Marian Zigmunt )
Go leave my sight The Messenger Melody
The Warrior
Drinking Song (Hulanka)