Piano Trio in B flat
Op. 99 played by the Harry Isaacs Trio:
Leonard Hirsch (violin) James Whitehead (cello)
Harry Isaacs (piano)
Talk by Dona Salmon
(The recorded broadcast of Oct. 1)
Music for strings, percussion, and celesta
Andante tranquillo; Allpgro;
Adagio; Allegro moMo
Orchestra of the Collegium Musicum, Zurich
Conducted by Paul Sacher
His Contribution to the Modern World by Sir John Cockroft , C.B.E., F.R.S., Director of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell
Sir John Cockcroft , who was a colleague of Lord Rutherford, speaks about the influence of Rutherford's work on our concept of the world and on its future technological development.
La Passione
Prepared for performance by Basil Lam
Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
Peter Pears (tenor)
George Pizzey (baritone)
Bernard Steel (bass)
South London Bach Society
(Conductor, Paul Steinitz )
Charles Spinks (organ)
The Boyd Neel Orchestra
(Le'ader, Maurice Clare )
Conducted by Trevor Harvey
Part 1
J. M. Cohen reviews two important works of literary criticism by the German scholar Ernst Robert Curtius.
La Passione
Part 2
Tradition, songs, and stories of the grey Atlantic seal with Mary O'Farrell
Seumas Healy. Ian Sadler
Seumas Kavanagh. Duncan Mclntyre
Eamon Kelly , Maureen Healy
Owen Brannigan (bass-baritone) with Marie Korchinska (harp)
Evelyn Campbell (soprano)
Seumas Ennis (uileann pipes)
Written and produced by David Thomson
Walter Gieseking (piano)
Twelve Preludes (Book 1):
Danseuses de Delphes; Voiles; Le vent dans la plalne; Les sons et les parfurns; Les collines d'Anacapri; Des pas sur la neige; Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest; La nlle aux cheveux de lin; La serenade interrompue; La cathédrale engloutie; La danae de Puck; Minstrels
W. B. Yeats by T. R. Henn, C.B.E., Fellow of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge
The speaker approaches Yeats' philosophy ' through the poet's beliefs, explicit and implicit, about the primary subjects of love, war, and death. He stresses the complexity of Yeats' use of symbols and the integration of myth and legend with the poet's own experience of politics and of history.
