The cantata is sung by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
Peter Pears (tenor)
William Parsons (baritone)
BBC Chorus
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate with the London Harpsichord Ensemble
by Ivan Turgenev
Translated by Constance Garnett
For details see Wednesday at 7.46
Frederick Thurston (clarinet)
Max Salpeter (violin) Peter Stadlen (piano)
Sonata for piano
For Children: Eleven pieces for piano Contrasts for clarinet, violin, piano:
Recruiting Dance; Relaxation; Fast Dance
Talk by Christopher Lloyd
Christopher Lloyd , Secretary of the Navy Record Society, is editing the previously unpublished papers of Admiral Lord Keith , who was Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth at the time of Napoleon's surrender. Mr. Lloyd describes the negotiations that led to Napoleon's confinement on St. Helena and comments on the subsequent developnfent of the Napoleonic legend.
by Ralph Downes
Translated into English verse from the medieval Cornish, adapted for broadcasting and produced by Terence Tiller
Music composed by Elizabeth Poston
Orchestra conducted by Cyril Gell with Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Marie Goossens (harp) and the BBC Singers
The. Lament of the Three Maries sung by Margaret Rolfe
Margaret Rees and Marjorie Westbury
' Christus Resurgens ' recorded by the Choir of Bromption Oratory
Conducted by Henry Washington
Organist. Ralph Downes
Quartet in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 played by the Budapest String Quartet:
Josef Roismann (violin)
Jacob Gorodetzky (violin)
Boris Kroyt (viola)
Mischa Schneider (cello)
(The recorded broadcast of Feb. 17)
The English Novel 1912-22
Talk by Angus Wilson
Angus Wilson speaks about some of the novelists in whom Henry James (the year being 1914) saw greatest promise: they included Gilbert Cannan and Hugh Walpole. Mr. Wilson suggests why this promise was not fulfilled.
(The recorded broadcast of March 22)