BBC Singers
Conducted by Cyril Gell Charles Spinks (organ)
The London Consort of Viols:
Harry Danks (treble viol)
Stanley Wootton (treble viol)
Jacqueline Townshend (tenor viol)
Desmond Dupr é (tenor viol)
Henry Revell (bass viol)
Pavan and Almain, for five viols
Singers:
And the king was moved: Contristatus est rex David; Cantate Domino, a 6; Lagrime, a 4; Duo seraphim; Jesu dulcis memoria, a 5 From St. Thomas's, Regent Street, London. (The viol music is recorded) Until recently it was thought that Deiriilg (c. 1580-1630) began his musical studies in Italy. Peter Platt has now assembled musical and documentary evidence to show that this theory is untenable. The works to be heard in this programme have been chosen to illustrate a new and more rational biographical approach.
by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis
The speaker, who is well known for his Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, describes the work involved in preparing letters for publication.
Kfibi Laretel (piano)
BBC Scottish Orchestra
(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
Rosenberg's Piano Concerto was first performed in Stockholm two years ago, with Käbi Laretei as soloist. Tonight it is being broadcast for the first time in this country. There are three movements.
See ' Music Diary ' on page 27
Joseph Edwards , D.SC. , talks about artificial insemination and the implications of its recent technical developments for livestock improvement
Dr. Edwards is Chief of the Production Division and Scientific Adviser to the Milk Marketing Board
Drumming and Dancing
The Quintetto Boccherini:
Guido Mozzato (violin) Arrigo Pelliccia (violin)
Renzo Sabatini (viola) Arturo Bonucci (cello)
Nerio Brunelli
(cello and double-bass)
Eight talks on aspects of life in primitive communities
7-Mind by Meyer Fortes
William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University A talk on the psychological aspect of primitive customs and the methods by which it may be studied.
Songs and Dances of Death: Trepak; Lullaby; Serenade;
Field-Marshal Death sung by Jennde Tourel (mezzo-soprano) with (Leonard Bernstein (piano) on gramophone records
A comparison of the work of R. H. Tawney and Canon V. A. Demant by R. H. S. Crossman M.P. ,
Four Preludes and Fugues
E minor; A minor; A; D played by Geraint Jones (organ)
From Westminster Calhedral