of the eighteenth century
Trio in E minor, for flute, oboe, bassoon, and continuo (Tafelmusik, Part 2) (Telemann) : Wiesbadener Collegium Musicum
Trio in G minor, for two oboes and harpsichord (J. H. Roman): Ingnd KellestrBm and Rolf Lannerholm (oboes). Erik Arnbom (harpsichord) on gramophone records
Excerpts in French from the Théâtre National Populaire production of ' Le Cid ' directed by Jean Vilar with Gerard Philipe as Don Rodrigue
Introduction and commentary by Merlin Thomas
Rudolf Firkusny (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Part 1
Talk by Arthur Calder-Marshall
' Since the, author of Tom Jones was buried, no writer of fiction among us has been permitted to depict to his utmost power a man..... Society will not tolerate the Natural in our Art.' So Thackeray explained away his limitations, in the preface to Pendennis. Arthur Calder-Marshall suggests that in the new material made available by the publication of Thackeray's letters and private papers another and mo.re personal explanation can be found.
Part 2
Four programmes devised and presented by Ernest Borneman with recordings made in the field by Arthur S. Alberts
4 — ' Cafe Music of Liberia '
A programme of modern African music which has its origin in British hymnody and ' the oom-pah jazz of the racoon coat era.'
Maggie Teyte (soprano)
Josephine Lee (accompanist)
Frederick Grinke (violin)
Kendall Taylor (piano)
Post-war Soviet Literature
Talk by Ernest Simmons
Professor of Russian Literature in the University of Columbia
Magnificat sung by the Schola Polyphonica
Director, Henry Washington with Ralph Downes (organ)