Partita No. 4, in D Toccata in G minor played by Iso Elinson (piano)
First of six programmes in which all Bach's partitas and toccatas are to be played.
Written by Michael Swan
Production by Douglas Cleverdon
It was as a baby that Henry James first visited Europe. He returned with his family in his early teens to continue the ' sensuous education ' that his father had planned for him. It was then that the seed of his longing for Europe was born, and in various ways the idea of the romantic otherness of Europe obsessed him for the rest of his life.
Marguerite Long (piano)
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francalse
Conductor, Roger Desormiere
Part 1
Dacre Balsdon , Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, talks about some of the Italian hill towns he visited last winter
Part 2
From the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Introduced and read by the author
In this programme Stephen Spender reads some of the poems he recently recorded under the auspices of the British Council
Mass: Euge bone sung by the Schola Polyphonica
Director, Henry Washington
by A. P. Ryan
As a young man Rosebery declared that he would win the Derby, marry an heiress, and be Prime Minister. He achieved all these ambitions before he was fifty, becoming Prime Minister in 1894. He died in 1929.
Sonata No. 2. Op. 31 for violin and piano played by Albert Sammons (violin)
Gerald Moore (piano) on gramophone records
An introductory talk 'by Alan Collingridge to Arda Mandikian 's recital to be broadcast tomorrow
Quartet in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 played by the Amadeus String Quartet:
Norbent Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin)
Peter Sohidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
by Francis Williams
Today British industry is giving a good deal of attention to American production methods; yet these methods were worked out to get results that were required for a society very different from our own. Francis Williams talks about whether we can successfully adopt production techniques that were evolved for American workers and to supply an American public.