Chamber Concerto, Op. 52: Collegium Musicum, Copenhagen, with Niels Viggo Bentzon , Georg Vasarhelyi , and Herman D. Koppel (pianos): record*
(died June 19. 1902)
Talk by Herbert Butterfield
Professor of Modern History
In the University of Cambridge
Professor Butterfield gives a critical appreciation of Lord Acton's work as a historian and political thinker.
(The recorded broadcast of June 19)
See also Thursday at 7.6
Wilfred Brown (tenor)
The Basil Lam Sonata Ensemble:
Patrick Halling (violin) Marjorie Lavers (violin)
Terence Well (cello)
Basil Lam (harpsichord)
Talk by Sir Max Beerbohm
Sir Max Beerbohm gave this talk in 1936, and the recording tonight is broadcast to mark his eightieth birthday. He recalls the impressions made on him by the Great Men of the Victorian period whom he used to seek out, to study, and to draw, when he was a small boy about London.
Flora Nielsen (mezzo-soprano)
Gerald Moore (accompanist)
(Studio performance of a recital given on August 19 in the Freemasons' Hall as part of the Edinburgh International Festival)
Etienne Amyot , who has recently returned from Salzburg, speaks about these two late operas by two great composers
by Branislav Nushich
Translated from the Serbian and freely adapted by Alec Brown
Produced by Donald McWhinnie
Sonata for violin and piano played by Frederick Grinke (violin)
Kendall Taylor (piano)
2—' Arnold and After' by Ian Watt
Assistant Professor of English Literature in the University of California
The speaker suggests that twentieth-century literary criticism falls into two main schools according to the stress it places on the moral and formal aspects of art.
Next talk: Wednesday at 7.30
Ralph Downes (organ)