Ralph Downes (organ)
From All Souls' Church, Langham Place. London. Schoenberg's Violin Concerto: Thursday
The logic of the question:
Is there Someone behind it all?
A dialogue between
John and Pamela Wisdom
Ida Presti (guitar)
The Wigmore Ensemble:
Geoffrey Gilbert (flute)
Terence MacDonagh (oboe)
Jack Brymer (clarinet)
Gwydion Brooke (bassoon)
Maurice Clare (violin)
Frederick Riddle (viola)
A comedy by Ivan Turgenev
Translated and adapted for broadcasting by Vera Larina with Michael Gough and Barbara Jefford
Characters in order of speaking:
Produced by Wilfrid Grantham
The action takes place in the morning-room of Mme. Libanova's country house in Russia, in the middle of the nineteenth century
Symphony No. 49 (1768)
Stabat Mater in G minor (1773)
Irmgard Seefried (soprano)
Nancy Evans (contralto)
Richard Lewis (tenor)
Richard Standen (bass)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
Charles Spinks (organ)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, David McCallum )
Conducted by Hermann Scherchen
Third of twelve programmes of Haydn's choral works, Another performance: tomorrow at 7.20
A performance of Missa Celensis: April 8
Talk by John Lawrence
(The recorded broadcast of Dec. 13) The Development of the Titoist Heresy, by P. A. Reynolds : March 29
Visions Fugitives
(Twenty Pieces for piano, Op. 22) played by Tom Bromley
Prokofiev, himself a brilliant pianist, has composed a great deal of piano music (including eight sonatas) in which his characteristically Puckish sense of fantasy finds full play. The ' Visions Fugitives ' were written in 1915-17, when he was in his early twenties; they vary in mood from the reflective to the scintillating. Frank Merrick , writing in Tempo, has said that the pieces ' might be taken as a series of comments on different individuals, swift and intuitive summings-up of people you meet.' H. R.
Story by Jack Seddon
Read by Martin Starkie
(Postponed from February 11)
To be repeated on March 28
Music for strings, percussion, and celesta
Andante tranquillo: Allegro: Adagio:
Allegro molto played by the Orchestra of the Collegium Musicum, Zurich
Conducted by Paul Sacher