Jan van der Gucht (tenor)
John Wolfe (oboe)
The Robert Masters String Trio:
Robert Masters (violin) Nannie Jamieson (viola)
Muriel Taylor (cello)
Talk by C. J. Hamson
Reader in Comparative Law in the University of Cambridge
Second of a series of seven talks on comparative law. Next talk: tomorrow
Leonard Cassini (piano)
Three Intermezzi, Op. 117:
E flat; B flat minor: C sharp minor
Rhapsody in G minor. Op. 79 No. 2 First of four recitals of piano music by Brahms.
Talk by Ernesto de Marchi , student of political theory and editor of the North Italian journal Occidente
followed by an interlude at 7.50
A lyric tragedy in a prologue and five acts
Words by Le Clerc de la Bruere
Music by Rameau
Radio version arranged by Edmond Appia
Attendants of Venus and of Jealousy, warriors, magicians, Phrygians
BBC Opera Chorus
(Trained by Alan G. Melville )
Thurston Dart (harpsichord)
Philharmonia Orchestra
(Leader, Manoug Parikian )
Conducted by Edmond Appia
Repetiteur, George Coop
The scene is laid in Phrygia in classical times
Prologue: The palace of love
Act 1: At the shrines of fallen heroes
Act 2: A deserted place near a temple
The Myth and the Man by Frank Thistlethwaite
Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge
The third and fourth volumes of the new Life of George Washington by Dr. D. S. Freeman have recently been published in this country. In this talk Mr. Thistlethwaite comments on the historian's problem of recovering Washington the man from the mythology of American national tradition.
Act 3: A gallery in Teucer's palace Act 4: The sea-shore
Act 5: Before Teucer's palace overlooking the sea followed by an interlude at 10.5
An impression of three poets of the 1914-1918 war: Rupert Brooke , Edward Thomas , and Wilfred Owen by Patric Dickinson
Sinfonietta played by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Rafael Kubelik on gramophone records
A talk by Roberto Gerhard
