Concerto in G (K.453) played by Ralph Kirkpatrick (piano)
Dumbarton Oaks Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Alexander Schneider on gramophone records
The piano used here is a modern reproduction of a late 18th-century instrument.
An illustrated talk by Professor J. Dover Wilson
This programme introduces the three Shakespeare historical plays to be broadcast in the Third Programme thi! week: Henry VI Parts 2 and 3, and Richard III. It takes the place of the largely non-Shakespearean play Henry VI Part I with episodes from the play acted by: Produced by Peter Watts
(The recorded broadcast of Oct. 31) ' Henry VI' Part 2: Tuesday at 8.30
Musikalische Exequien
The Deller Consort:
April Cantelo (sopramo)
Eileen McLoughlin (soprano) Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Alexander Young (tenor)
Eric Barnes (tenor)
Maurice Bevan (baritone) Norman Platt (baritone)
The London Bach Society
Terence Weil (cello)
Eugene Cruft (double-bass) Arnold Richardson (organ) Conducted by Paul Steinitz
Talk by C. B. Williams , Sc.D.
Following a talk given by Dr. David LAck on the migration of birds, Dr. Williams describes what is known of the muoh less obvious migration of butterflies and moths.
The speaker is head of the entomology department at Rothamsted Experimental Station.
Bernard Lefort (baritone)
Jean-Michel Damase
(accompanist)
The Quintetto Chigiano:
Ricardo Brengola (violin) Mario Benvenuti (violin)
Giovanni Leone (viola)
Lino Filippini (cello) Sergio Lorenzi (piano)
(The songs are recorded)
Talk by K. J. Fielding
The speaker suggests that there is a relationship between chapter seventeen of Dickens' unfinished mys-tery novel Edwin Drood and the controversy that raged around Governor Eyre following the notorious massacre in Jamaica in 1865. K. J. Fielding is Lecturer in English at Liverpool University.
The music of French Colonial Africa
A programme of primitive music on records, prepared by André SchaefTner and Gilbert Rouget of the Department of Musical Ethnology, Musee de I'Homme, Parts
Compiled and narrated by Alan Lomax
(The recorded broadcast of March 24)
Some personal recollections by Guido Calogero
The speaker, who is Professor of Philosophy at Rome University, was a personal friend of Croce for more than twenty-five years and began his philosophical studies under Croce's influence.