Betty-Jean Hagen (violin)
Wilfrid Parry (piano)

Ivry Gitlis talks about Jacques Thibaud , who was his teacher

Philip Hattey (bass-baritone)
Desmond Dupre (viola da gamba)
Diana Poulton (lute)
J Margaret Hodsdon (virginals)
Programme arranged by Diana Poulton
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Another programme of Elizabethan ballads, arranged by Elizabeth Cole : April 20
Enthusiasm for ballads and ballad-tunes came so naturally to the Elizabethans that they had little difficulty in supplying the right melody to a given ballad on the spur of the moment, for the printed sheets of ballads rarely carried musical notation. These two programmes show how recent research has shed light on the ballad.tunes.in particular, which were often used in settings for lute, viols, and keyboard instruments by some of the greatest Elizabethan composers. Denis Stevens

A comment on contemporary poetry by Francois Duch êne
The speaker, who is a leader writer on the Manchester Guardian, suggests that poetry today is rooted in philosophies that accept the stress and strain of violent change; yet the poetic impulse is enfeebled because the revolutionary will and the confident belief in freedom through action are dead.

Rudolf Firkusny (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor,
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Part 1

Three talks to mark the quincentenary of Leonardo's birth by Edgar Wind
2—' The Last Supper *
Leonardo as a physiognomist: April. 30

Part 2

by Jessie Kesson
An attempt to capture the ' inward eye' possessed by all children
Part 1:
A drab and teeming tenement
Part 2:
A kindly orphanage
Narrator, Lennox Milne

Geraint Jones (organ)

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