The Art of Fugue played by James Ching (piano)
Three-part Triple Fugue (8)
Double Fugue at the twelfth (9) Double Fugue at the tenth (10)
by David Riesman
A talk on the trend in American life away from conspicuous and lavish, consumption to conspicuous production.
String Quartet No. 1 played by the Griller String Quartet:
Sidney Griller (violin) Jack O'Brien (violin) Philip Burton (viola) Colin Hampton (cello)
Talk by Terence Prittie
Manchester Guardian correspondent in Germany
by Archibald MacLeish
T'he scene is a garden above rhe sea on one of rhe islands of the Antilles.
Music specially composed by Antony Hopkine
Produced by D. G. Bridson
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader. Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Symphony No. 2. in D - Beethoven
Pavane - Fauré
Symphony No. 1 - Rubbra
A series of illustrated talks by Edward Sackville-West
In each of these talks Edward Sackville-West considers the characteristic style of a particular pianist. This evening he talks about Dame Myra Hess, her approach to her repertoire, and her interpretation of the great works in it.
Mass: Je suis desheritee sung by the Schola Polyphonica
Director, Henry Washington
For nearly fifteen years Nicholas Gombert was in charge of the chapel choir a the Emperor Charles V's court. This royal post afforded frequent opportunities for travel and gave Gombert a wide acquaintance with European music of the time. He took rhe theme of his Mass ' Je su:s desheritee ' (1557) from a four-part chanson by Pierre Cadeac. D.S.
A memoir by Margaret Murray
Divertimento in F (K.247) played by members of the Vienna Octet on gramophone records