Consort of Viols of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
John Wills (harpsichord)
Four talks by George Rylands
3-The Romantics
This talk is illustrated with readings by Dame Edith Evans , John Gielgud , Stephen Murray , and Michael Redgrave.
(The recorded broadcast of Sept. 17)
Last talk: tomorrow at 9.30
String Quartet No. 4, in A minor played by the Hirsch String Quartet:
Leonard Hirsch (violin) Patrick Halling (violin) Stephen Shingles (viola) Francisco Gabarro (cello)
(first broadcast performance)
This work, written in 1950, is dedicated to the Hirsch String Quartet, who commissioned it and gave the first complete performance of it in London last May. The slow movement is based on the last of ' Three Wordsworth Songs ' (' It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ') which the composer wrote two years ago in celebration of the centenary of his name-sake and ancestor. The quartet has four movements: Andante -Allegro; Allegro molto; Poco adagio e molto tranquillo; and Allegro con brio. H.R.
Talk by the Rev. C. F. Whitley Senior Tutor of St. John's College in the University of Durham
Dr. Whitley discusses the simultancous movements in science, ethics, and religion in the sixth century B.C. which initiated the civilisation of the West. ' It was an age of profound disturbance and therefore of creative thinking ... '
by Frederic Manning
Other parts played by Geoffrey Bond , Hamilton Dyce
Anthony Jacobs , Basil Jones
Preston Lockwood , Frank Tickle and Virginia Winter
Adapted and produced by Rayner Heppenstall
In 1209 or 1210, after much delay and with misgiving, Innocent III granted the young Francesco Bernardone permission to found a religious brotherhood following the rule of absolute poverty. The interview at which this was done and the first adventure of the ' Little Brothers ' as they set out from Rome are portrayed with delicacy by a writer who died in 1935. (A new production of the programme first broadcast in 1947)
Te Deum No. 2, In C
Symphony No. 29, in E
Creation Mass
Adele Leigh (soprano)
Marjorie Thomas (contralto)
Raymond Nilsson (tenor)
Richard Standen (bass)
Charles Spinks (organ)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate ) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader. David McCallum )
Conducted by Hermann Scherchen
Ninth in a series of programmes of Haydn's choral works
Talk by Thomas Mann
(The recorded broadcast of May 28) Pablo Casals on the Artist in Society: Sept. 28
Piano Quintet in F minor played by The Amadeus String Quartet:
Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin)
Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
Clifford Curzon (piano)
Talk by H. A. Powell
The speaker has recently returned from an anthropological study of the Trobriand islanders.
(The recorded broadcast of August 21)
