Quartet in E flat
Op. 14
Allegro; Andante; Allegretto; Finale played by the Aeolian String Quartet:
Alfred Cave (violin)
Leonard Dight (violin) Watson Forbes (viola)
John Moore (cello)
by Lord Radcliffe of Werneth.
P.C., G.B.B.
7-on the nature of power and the problem of its control
What is the source of power and where does sovereignty lie? In the last of his series of lectures Lord Radcliffe summarises various answers to these questions and concludes by considering the British attitude to political power.
Jean Michel Damase (piano)
The Wigmore Ensemble:
Geoffrey Gilbert (flute) Jack Brymer (clarinet)
Basil Tschaikov (clarinet)
Maurice Clare (violin)
Frederick Riddle (viola)
William Pleeth (cello)
Marie Korchinska (harp)
Talk by Geoffrey Webb
Since the war several sets of wall paintings of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries-the ' missing ' centuries of Byzantine art-have been uncovered in Serbia and Macedonia. Professor Webb gives an account of them and speaks of some of the stylistic and iconographical problems of later work which they help to solve.
To be repeated on February 2
A journey through France
In the steps of Laurence Sterne
Written and produced by Rayner Heppenstall who writes on page 8
For details see Thursday at 7.45
Symphony No. 26. in D minor
Missa in honorem
Beatissimae Virginis Mariae
Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano) Kathleen Joyce (contralto)
William Herbert (tenor)
Norman Walker (bass)
Geraint Jones (organ)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
The Boyd Neel Orchestra
(Leader, Maurice Clare )
Conducted by Georges Enesco
(Norman Walker broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)
First of a series of twelve programmes of Haydn's choral works and symphonies. Another performance: tomorrow.
Arthur Jacobs writes on page 6
A talk by Herbert Murrill
BBC Head of Music
Sonata in G sharp
Tranquillo: Allegro; Finale played by Raymond Cohen (violin) Franz Reizenstein (piano)
Adapted from
John Mackay Wilson 's ' Tales of the Borders ' and read by Laidman Browne
(The recorded broadcast of October 7),
DavidsbUndtertanze, Op. 6 played by Cortot (piano) on gramophone records
