A cantata by Egon Wellesz
Myra Verney (soprano) The Oscar Lampe Trio:
Oscar Lamtpe (violin)
Frederick Alexander (cello)
Hubert Dewkes (piano) Sidney Fell (clarinet)
Arthur Jacobs ' ' Music Diary '— p. 5
by Malcolm Macdonald
An illustrated talk on the curious change in style of trumpet-playing that took place during the eighteenth century.
Quintet in A, Op. 114 (The Trout) played by the Robert Masters Piano Quartet: Robert Maetexe (violin) Nannie Jemieson (viola) Muriel Taylor (cello) Kinloch Anderson (piano) Eugene Cruft (double-bass)
by Dr. Jonathan Swtft
Produced by D G. Brideon
The Three Dialogues that make up Dean Swift's Polite Conversation are intended to give satirical samples of the fashionably affected speech of the time. The cliches and catch-phrases that they retail, however, make up a fascinating study of conversational usage in the Augustan Age.
'Le Sang des Autres '
'Other Men's Blood': English version by Richard Capell sung by the Fleet Street Choir
Conductor, T. B. Lawrence
(first broadcast in this country)
Jean Berger, who was born in Germany in 1901, lived in Paris during the nineteen-thirties, studying with Louis Aubert and becoming a French citizen. Since 1941 he has been living in the U.S.A. Le Sang des Autres, which won an international prize at
Ziirich in 1937, is dedicated to Honegger. The poem, by Rene Arcos , on the subject of the first world war, has been translated by Richard Capell. There are three sections: Dirge for a Friend, Wooden Crosses, and The Dead.
What are the possible sources of capital for industry, and how best can they be directed?
These question- are discussed by Austen Albu
Labour Member of Parliament and Harold Wincott Editor of the Investors' Chronicle
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Paul Kletzki
Part 1
Mary Scrutton reviews E. R. Dodds ' book ' The Greeks and the Irrational,' published last year
Part 2
by Arnold Toynbee
2-Islam
In this lecture Arnold Toynbee speaks of the Islamic peoples' reactions to some aspects of Western technology and Western nationalism; and in particular about Turkey's course of unlimited Westernisation to save herself from extinction.
The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble:
Philip Jones (trumpet)
Roy Copestake (trumpet)
Charles Gregory (horn)
Evan Watkin (tenor trombone) Arthur Wilson (tenor trombone) Gerald McElone (bass trombone)
or The Schoolfellows *
A poem by William Allingham
Read by Sir Arthur Grimble
Helmut Walcha (organ)
Canoniic Variations on Vom Hummel hoch da komm ich her
Pastorale in F on gramophone records