Quartet No. 6, in E played by the Hollywood String Quartet on gramophone records
Talk by Bertrand de Jouvenel
A shortened version of the Sidney Ball lecture given in Oxford on November 22.
Sonata in E flat, Op. 27 No. Sonata in D, Qp. 28 played by Claudio Arrau (piano)
Tenth of sixteen recitals
Next programme; Wednesday at 9.5 (Claudio Arrau broadcasts by permission of Harold Holt, Ltd.)
No. 5
A monthly miscellany of new poetry and prose, edited and introduced by John Lehmann
Among those taking part are
Edith Sitwell , Lynette Roberts
G. S. Fraser
Contributions from
George Barker , Walter Baxter Alan Ross , Calder Willingham
Readers:
Anthony Jacobs , John Glen
Guy Kingsley Poynter
(Guy Kingsley Poynter is appearing in 'Winter Journey' at the St. James's Theatre, London)
Transcribed by Gian Francesco Malipiero edited by Walter Goehr (counter-tenor) (baritone) (soprano)(soprano)(soprano)(soprano)(bass)(contralto)(bass)(baritone)
Shepherds and spirits sung by Raymond Nilsson (tenor)
Wilfred Brown (tenor)
Norman Platt (baritone)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
An Orchestra
Conducted by Walter Goehr
Repetiteur, George Coop
Produced by Denis Stevens
Part 1
Talk by Renato Giordano ,
Independent liberal columnist
. To be repeated on June 18
Part 2
(A second performance of the programme broadcast on June 6)
(Norman Walker broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)
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. Mr. Thistlethwaite comments on the historian's problem of recovering Washington the man from the mythology of American national tradition.
Musica da Camera:
Harold Clarke (flute)
Vera Kantrovitch (violin)
Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
Joy Hall (cello)
Hubert Dawkes (harpsichord)
Julian Bream (guitar)
