No. 9
A monthly miscellany of new poetry and prose, edited and introduced by John Lehmann
Contributions from
James Baxter. John Heath-Stubbs
Francis King , Laurie Lee
Rosamond Lehmann
Angelos Sikelianos
Vernon Watkins , Diana Witherby
Readers:
John Glen , Beatrix Lehmann and Denis McCarthy
Sonata No. 2, in E minor
Op. 108 for violin and piano played by Henriette Canter (violin)
Ernest Lush (piano)
See also Thursday at 6.35
A talk by Alick Dru on the philosophy of Josef Pieper
' Leisure, the Basis of Culture ' is the title of Alick Dru 's translation, published earlier this year, of the two essays by Josef Pieper to be discussed in this talk.
Hervey Alan (bass-baritone)
The London Mozart Players
(Leader, Max Salpeter )
Conductor, Harry Blech
Mozart died on December 5. 1791, while Haydn was composing his Ninety-Eighth Symphony. Haydn, profoundly moved, almost certainly modelled the Adagio on that of the ' Jupiter,' in conscious tribute to his friend. The ' Jupiter ' itself, however, is not entirely serious in mood, quoting as it does the jocular arietta K.S41, written three months earlier. Mozart's own farewell is spoken with heartfelt simplicity in ' lo ti lascio.' M.W.
Talk by J. D. Scott
J. D Scott discusses the book of this title, published in Edinburgh in 1819, which caused a stir by its brilliant portraits of contemporary Scottish personalities. ' Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk' (recently republished) was ostensibly written by a Peter Morris , but its real author was John Gibson Lockhart , later to become famous as the biographer of Burns and Scott.
followed by an interlude at 9.15
Family reminiscences by Angus Wilson
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall
The introduction and commentary conducted by Angus Wilson and Beatrix Lehmann with Gabrielle Blunt , Denise Bryer
George Pastell. Eric Phillips
Roger Snowdon , Gladys Spencer
Raf de la Torre , Ann Totten and Marjorie Westbury
Symphony No. 1:
Cyrano de Bergerac played by the BBC Scottish Orchestra
(Leader. J. Mouland Begbie )
Conducted by Trevor Harvey
(first performance) (See Music Diary
by Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863) with a new verse translation by Richard Church
Read in English by Bernard Miles and in French by Marcel Herrand Arranged by Rayner Heppenstall
Trio In E flat. Op. 40: played by Adolf Busch (violin), Aubrey Brain (horn), and Rudolf Serkin (piano) on gramophone records
Talk by Tcrence Prittie
(The recorded broadcast of Nov. 15)