Sonata No. 3, in A minor, Op. 25 played by Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
Hephzibah Menuhin (piano) on gramophone records
Short story by Mikhail Prishvin
Read by Carleton Hobbs
This story, about a coursing dog and an autumn shoot, is taken from 'The Lake and The Woods: or Nature's Calendar.' The translation is by W. L. Goodman.
(The recorded broadcast of October 4)
(Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conducted by Stanley Pope
Henriette Faure (piano)
Charles Koechlin , who died two years ago at the age of eighty-three, was a pupil of Faure and a close friend of Debu&sy. He had a considerable influence on .modern French music; amongst others, Poulenc and Milhaud have paid tribute to him.
D.C.
Dr. Edith Sitwell introduces a programme on the novelist who died at the age of thirty-three as a result of an accident
Jocelyn Brooke who has edited Denton Welch 's journals for publication, presents a selection of passages from them
Read by Alan Wheatley
Peter Stadlen (piano)
(first broadcast performance in this country)
Administrative Law
Talk by E. C. S. Wade
Downing Professor of the Laws of England
Fifth of a series of seven talks
by Edmund Spenser
Programme 3—'The Idle Lake; the Realm of Mammon'
(Being Cantos 6 and 7 of Book 2)
Produced by Louis MacNeice
On Wenlock Edge a song cycle
On Wenlock Edge
From far, from eve and morning Is my team ploughing?
Oh. when I was in love with you Bredon Hill Clun sung by Ren6 Soames (tenor) with the Hirsch String Quartet:
Leonard Hirsch (violin) Patrick Halling (violin) Stephen Shingles (viola) Francisco Gabarro (cello) and Clifton Helliwell (piano)
Vaughan Williams was one of the first composers to be attracted by A. B. Housman 's A Shropshire Lad. His setting of the six poems that make up ' On Wenlock Edge' dates from 1909 (the year of - the Tallis Fantasia and the music to The Wasps). He had just returned from studying with Ravel in Paris, and the song cycle, with its atmospheric effects, has been criticised as over-elaborate for the poems. But some of the songs have an appealing simplicity, the words are set with the utmost sensitiveness, and the whole work takes a place of importance in the history of English music.
Harold Rutland
Talk by Anne Karminski
The first number of the Edinburgh Review was published on October 10. 1802. Tonight, Anne Karminski speaks in memory of its founders.
(The recorded broadcast of October 7)
The Wigmore Ensemble:
Geoffrey Gilbert (flute)
Maurice Clare (violin) William Pleeth (cello)
Marie Korchinska (harp)
Wilfrid Parry (piano)
