Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Second of six weekly lectures by Isaiah Berlin
Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
Olga Coelho (soprano)
(songs with guitar accompaniment)
The Wigmore Ensemble:
Geoffrey Gilbert (flute)
Terence MacDonagh (oboe)
Jack Brymer (clarinet)
Gwydion Brooke (bassoon)
Dennis Brain (horn)
William Overton (trumpet)
John Ashby (trombone)
by Edmund Spenser
7-' The House of Busirane
(Being Cantos 11 and 12 of Book 3) .
Produced by Louis MacNeice
Elsie Morison (soprano)
Marjorie Thomas (contralto) William Herbert (tenor)
Denis Dowling (baritone)
Scott Joynt (bass)
Charles Spinks (organ)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, David McCallum )
Conducted by John Pritchard
Part 1
A note on Rubbra's Festival Te Deum appears on page 11.
The second of Mozart's two settings of the Lorettine Litany (so called because its text makes use of inscriptions from the Mary Chapel of the Casa Santa in Loreto) was written in 1774 for the smaller churches of Salzburg. The next concert in this series including litanies and vespers by Mozart, on December IS, will include the Litaniae de venerabili altaris Sacramento (K.243).
A monthly review of current questions in architecture and planning
The Planning of Singapore
Talk by Sir George Pepler
C.B., P.P.T.P.I.
Part 2
Symphony No. 21, in A (K.134). Mozart
10.20 app. Stabat Mater.Szymanowski
(sung in Latin)
Karol Szymanowski, who died in 1937 at the age of fifty-three, was the outstanding figure in Polish music of recent times. His Stabat Mater made a deep impression when it was given for the first time in 1928; seven years later it received its first performance in this country, at the Three Choirs Festival at Worcester. It is for soprano; contralto, and baritone soloists, mixed chorus, and normal symphony orchestra without trombones, and is divided into six sections. D.C.
A review of discussions at the enlarged meeting of the International Missionary Council held at Willingen, Germany, in July by the Rev. E. H. Robertson
With recorded extracts from talks given by delegates to the conference
Suite
Conversation with Serge Prokofiev. and Tsamikos: Mandinada and Ballos: Nocturne and Calamatianos: March and Syrtos; Pastoral and Big Sousta played by John Papadopoulos (piano)