Quartet No. 2, in E flat, Op. 73 played by the New London Quartet: Erich Gruenberg (violin)
Lionel Bentley (violin) Keith Cummings (viola) Douglas Cameron (cello)
Fosco Maraini talks about the recent excavations at Piazza Armerina
Missa Papae Marcelli
Choir of Radio Italiana, Milan
Conductor, Roberto Benaglio
(Record'ng made available by courtesy of Radio Italiana)
Last of a series of nine programmes In April 1555 Cardinal Marcdlo Cervina was elected Pope, taking the title of Marcellus II. His death, three weeks later, prevented him from actively reforming the artificial complexities then existing in church music and worship. Palestrina's Mass, however, (written as a tribute to his memory) helped greatly to establish a purer style. Liturgically it conforms to the pieccpts (formulated by the Pope) of economy, clarity, and ineligibility of wolds. Its most memorable features are its noble design, austere atmospheie, and refined use of dissonance. H. C.-J.
Singing and Hand-clapping
Trio Pathetique: played by Leopold Wlach (clarinet)
Karl Oehlerberger (bassoon) Paul Badura-Skoda (piano) on gramophone records
A study in monarchy and its attributes, both sacred and profane
2-Roman Monarchy by F. E. Adcock
Emeritus Professor of Ancient History. Cambridge University
Second of four talks
by Alexander Scott
A sequel in verse to the Ballad of True Thomas the Rhymer, describing his return to the world after seven years in the Land of Youth
Fiddle played by Harvey Webb
Produced by David Thomson
Willy Glas (flute)
Fritz Fischer (oboe)
Ludovic Vaillant (trumpet) Werner Krotzinger (violin)
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra Conductor, Karl Munchinger
This is the first of three programmes by the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra in which Bach's six Brandenburg Concertos will be Played The other two programmes will be broadcast on March 22 and 29.
A talk by Jean Cocteau , read In an English translation by Jack Palmer White
played by Edith Vogel (piano)
