Piano Sonata in B flat
(Op. posth.) played by Grete Scherzer
(Grete Scherzer broadcasts by permission of Wilson Speakman )
by the Hon. N. C. Havenga ,
Minister of Finance in the Union of South Africa
Mr. Havenga recently attended the annual conference of tht International Monetary Fund in Mexico City. He speaks about his attempt to secure a higher price for gold and of South. Africa's present role in world economy as the chief gold-producing country.
(The recorded broadcast of Oct. 2)
Requiem Mass sung by the Choir of Westminster Cathedral
Conductor, George Malcolm
W. B. Stanford reviews the book recently published under this title by Sir Maurice Bowra
The speaker, who is Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College, Dublin, comments on the revolution in the interpretation of ancient and modern epic poetry produced, in recent years, by the use of the comparative method in the study of literature.
Norbert Brainin (violin)
Peter Schidlof (viola)
London Mozart Players
(Leader, Max Salpeter )
Conductor, Harry Blech
From the Royal Festival Hall, London
Second of three talks on India and Ceylon by Raymond Mortimer
by Bernard Shaw
Cast in order of speaking:
Joan Gray (contralto)
Hervey Alan (bass-baritone)
Frederick Stone (accompanist)
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First of three programmes
Herbert Howells , Who celebrates his sixtieth birthday a week today (October 17), wrote ' King David ' and ' Gavottc ' in 1919. are by ; those of the second by Sir Henry Newbolt.
The four sonnets of John Donne were set to music by William Wordsworth in 1944. Of the songs by Edmund Rubbra , the first three date from the years 1928 to 1931 and are settings to poems by Murdoch Maclean , James Thomson , and Shelley respectively. Psalm 150, ' Praise ye the Lord, (the last of ' Three Psalms '), was composed some five years ago.
Harold Rutland