Nora Gruhn (soprano)
Josephine Lee (accompanist)
Jack Brymer (clarinet)
Dennis Brain (horn)
Manoug Parikian (violin) Frederick Riddle (viola) Denis Matthews (piano)

Talk by Norman Gibbs
A translation of a history of the German General Staff by Walter Gorlitz has recently been published. Commenting on it, Norman Gibbs points out that one of the profound changes brought about by the French Revolution was the introduction of national conscript armies in place of the small professional armies of the eighteenth century. These armies needed a 'thinking machine,' and the German General Staff emerged in a process that affected all European countries including Great Britain. But the 'thinking machine' of the German Army was an extreme example of the process, and its special characteristics are examined by the speaker, a Fellow of Merton College and recently elected to die Chair of Military History at Oxford.

Anthem: My heart is inditing Concerto Grosso in B minor
Op. 6 No. 12
Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate
Joan Alexander (soprano)
Nancy Evans (mezzo-soprano)
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Wilfred Brown (tenor)
Rene Soames (tenor) George James (bass)
David Willcocks (organ)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master. Leslie Woodgate )
Philharmonia Orchestra
(Leader, Max Salpeter )
Conducted by Boris Ord
(George James broadcasts by permission of the Governors of Sadler's Wells)
This is the first of .three programmes each of which will include one of the anthems written by Handel for the Coronation of George II in 1727. The second concert wiU be broadcast on Friday M 7.30 and the last on June 2.
See ' Music Diary on page 27

by Andre Obey
Translated by Gerard Hopkins
Produced by E. J. King Bull

Sonata In E minor, Op. 108 played by Henriette Canter (violin)
Ernest Lush (piano)

Illustrated talk by C. H. Williams
Professor of History at King's College, London
' Just as the spirit of the Middle Ages can sometimes be gleaned more from close study of this carving and that gargoyle than from a survey of rhe whole cathedral pile,' says the speaker, ' so there may be some feature in the Coronation Service which, by close study, can bring us nearer to the essential spirit of the whole.' From this point of view Professor Williams talks about the ritual anointing of the Monarch and the legend of phe holy oil in England.