Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo
(Little Organ Solo Mass) (1770)
Divertimento in F (1760)
Salve Regina (1771)

by Nicolai Gogol
Read by Carleton Hobbs
A shortened version of the translation by Constance Garnett

Piano Quintet in A, Op. 81
Allegro; Dumka; Scherzo; Finale played by The New London Quartet:
Erich Gruenberg (violin)
Lionel Bentley (violin) Keith Cummings (viola) Douglas Cameron (cello) Harry Isaacs (piano)

by Sir Charles Webster , K.C.M.G.
Stevenson Professor of International History in the University of London and President of the British Academy (Shortened version of a speech given on Dec. 7 at the annual Oration Day at the London School of Economics)

SONGS AND DANCES
Pierre Bernac (baritone)
Harry Danks (viola d'amore)
Desmond Dupre (lute)
Ralph Downes (organ)
(Music edited by Denis Stevens )

A monthly report on the arts, science, and politics abroad
Compiled by Alan Pryce-Jones

A cantata by Elizabeth Poston
Text based on the Childhood of Christ as described in the New Testament and in traditional English ballads drawn from the legends of the Apocryphal Gospels, compiled and written by Terence Tiller
A section of the Covent Garden Opera Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson )
Members of the Choir of Highgate School
(Director, Edward Chapman )
Gareth Morris (solo Mute)
Charles Spinks (organ)
An Instrumental Ensemble (Led by Vera Kantrovitch )
Conducted by Douglas Robinson
Reader, Anne Cullen

Doris Gambell (soprano)
Cecil Cox (flute)
Sale and District Musical Society
(Conductor, Alfred Higson )
BBC Northern Orchestra
(Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
Sir Arthur Bliss ' Pastoral, which is dedicated to Elgar, was first performed in 1929. The poems are selected from the works of Ben Jonson , John Fletcher , Poliziano, Theocritus, and Robert Nichols.

Talk by J. Z. Young , F.R.S.
The speaker comments on the work and thought of Sir Charles Sherrington , o.M.

Carl Dolmetsch (recorder)
Joseph Saxby (harpsichord)