Eight Preludes
. played by Leonard Cassini (piano)
Illustrated talk by Matyas Seiber on Bartok's sixth and last string quartet
London Chamber Singers
Conductor, Anthony Bernard
London Consort of Viols:
Harry Danks (treble viol)
Stanley Wootton (treble viol)
Jacqueline Townshend (tenor viol)
Henry Revell (bass viol)
Robert Donington (bass viol)
Second of five programmes of music of the Renaissance
Talk by Muriel Spark
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley died on February 1, 1851. She is perhaps best known as the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and as the second wife of the poet Shelley. As the author of two novels, the well-known Frankenstein and the little-known The Last Man, she has claims for consideration on her own account.
Recollections and evocations of a journey through the vineyards of Medoc, St. Emilion, and Sauterne at the time of wine harvest in October 1950
The Travellers: Andre Simon and Wynford Vaughan Thomas
Gioconda de Vito (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader.Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Part 1: Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tarlis. for double string orchestra
8.58 app. Symphony No. 6. in E minor
Talk by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
Part 2 : Brahms
Violin Concerto in D
10.31 app. Academic Festival Overture Brahms' Third Symphony: Saturday
reads and comments on some of his own poetry
Marguerite Roesgen-Champion
(harpsichord)
A talk by Terence Prittie , Manchester Guardian correspondent in Germany