Violin Concerto No. 1 played by Eugenia Uminska (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Conducted by Gregor Fitelberg on gramophone recopds
Talk by J. A. Brunton
' Every event has a cause ': ' We are really free ': both these pseudo-propositions are unintelligible. Is free will an ' ultimate hunch '? J. A. Brunton , Lecturer in Philosophy at University College, Cardiff, considers the suitable attitude to an unsolved riddle.
Missa Brevis
Schola Polyphonica
Director, Henry Washington
Preceded by an introductory talk by Henry Washington
' Phaedo '
Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 for piano and strings played by The Griller String Quartet:
Sidney Griller (violin) Jack O'Brien (violin) Philip Burton (viola) Colin Hampton (cello) Myra Hess (piano)
Brahms' Piano Quintet, which Dame Myra Hess and the Griller String Quartet performed last night at the Edinburgh Festival, exists in three forms. Originally written as a string quintet with two cellos, it was adversely criticised by Joachim, and Brahms destroyed this version; the recent reconstruction of this form of the work by Sebastian Brown is sometimes performed. Brahms next arranged it for two pianot, and this version will be heard in the Third Programme on Friday. Finally, at Clara Schumann's suggestion, he redesigned the work as a piano quintet.
Deryck Cooke
Alex Comfort reviews the recently published Oxford Book of American Verse, edited by F. 0. Matthiessen
Opera in a prologue and one act by Luigi Dallapiccola based on ' La Torture par l'Espérance' (Count Villlers de l'lsle-Adam) and ' La Legende d'Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak ' (Charles de Coster)
Chorus and Symphony Orchestra of the Flemish Department of the Belgian Broadcasting Organisation
(Chorus-Master, Jan van Bouwel )
Conducted by Leonce Gras
Scene: A dungeon In the State Prison at Saragossa in the latter half of the sixteenth century
Alex Comfort introduces readings from Anne Bradstreet , John Green -leaf Whittier, Wait Whitman , Wallace Stevens , John Crowe Ransom , and Robinson Jeffers. (All these poets are represented in the new Oxford Book of American Verse)
Reader. Guy Kingsley Poynter
played by Arnold Richardson