Harold Jackson (trumpet)
The Hirsch String Quartet:
Leonard Hirsch (violin) Patrick Halling (violin) Stephen Shingles (viola) Francisco Gabarro (cello)
Eugene Cruft (double-bass)
Lance Dossor (piano)
Talk by Norman Nicholson
After reading Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata Norman Nicholson found that Jerusalem was confused in his mind with Millom in Cumberland, where he livea. Looking across the Duddon estuary to Millom on the opposite shore he saw the landscape not as it appeared to Words-worth but as essentially heroic.
(The recorded broadcast of Jan. 16)
(piano)
Talk by J. M. Cohen
Benito Perez Galdos , whom the speaker considers to have been Spain's greatest novelist, has remained virtually unknown in this country. Mr. Cohen talks about Galdos in connection with the publication in England of his novel La de Bringas under the title The Spendthrifts.
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.)
A comedy by Sacha Guitry
Adapted by Dennis Arundell from the English version of Harley Granville-Barker
with Eric Anderson , Rosamund Greenwood
Arthur Lawrence. Nancy Nevinson
Marjorie Westbury
Incidental music composed and conducted by Dennis Arundell
Produced by Peter Watts
Fantasy Sonata played by Watson Forbes (viola)
Marie Korchinska (harp)
A talk by Matyas Seiber on Schoenberg's twelve-note method and its application by various composers
(The recorded broadcast of Jan. 17)
Talk by Michael Tippett : January 27
