Quartet No. 3: played by the Hollywood String Quartet on gramophone records
Talk by 0. R. Frisch , F.R.S.
(soprano) (contralto)(bass) (soprano)
The Ambrosian Singers
Orpington Junior Singers The New London Quartet:
Erich Gruenberg (violin)
Lionel Bentley (violin) Keith Cummings (viola) Douglas Cameron (cello) with Eugene Cruft (double-bass)
Continue:
Charles Spinks (harpsichord)
Desmond Dupr é (viola da gamba)
Julian Bream (lute)
Produced by Denis Stevens
II Ballodell'Ingrate was composed by Monteverdi for the festivities at Mantua in June 1608. It is one of the few ballets in the French style to have been preserved in complete form, and owes its conception as well as its text to Ottavio Rinuccini, librettist and francophile.
An introduction by Scott Goddard to Vaughan Williams ' new work
Illustrated at the piano by Michael Mullinar
Sinfonia Antarctica
In ' Music Diary ' on page 4 Arthur Jacobs writes about ' Sinfonia Antarctica,' and on page 5 Neville Cardus reviews the history of the Hallé Orchestra.
by Arnold Toynbee
3—India
In this lecture Arnold Toynbee speaks of the tension between the Hindu civilisation and an alien force in India. In his view the impact of the West on India was far more violent than on Russia or on the Muslim world.
Next lecture, on the Far East: January 22
A comedy freely adapted from Niccolo Machiavelli by Ashley Dukes
Radio version by Barbara Burnham
Music composed and directed by John Hotchkis
Desmond Dupre (guitar)
Scene: A square in Florence about 1511
Paul Badura-Skoda (piano)
W. B. Stanford. Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College, Dublin, reviews the book published under this title by Sir Maurice Bowra
