Jan Sedivka (violin)
Tom Bromley (piano)
Sophie Wyss (soprano)
Marie Korchinska (harp)
The Carter String Trio:
Mary Carter (violin) Anatole Mines (viola) Antonia Butler (cello)
Leon Goossens (oboe)
Vincent Pobjoy's Violin Sonata was first performed by Jan Sedivka and Tom Bromley in 1951 at a concert of the Society for the Promotion of New Music. The songs by Philip Cannon are dedicated to Sophie Wyss and Marie Korchinska, who first performed them at a concert in London last year; their titles are: La mal mariee, L'amoureuse, La bien mariée, La veuve, and La bien aimée. Francis Baines' Summer Music was written in 1949; it is in three movements, played without a break. D.C.
Talk by T. B. Smith Professor of Scots Law in the University of Aberdeen
In the first of two talks comparing Scots Law with English Law, Professor Smith describes Scottish procedure in criminal trial.
The Art of Fugue played by James Ching (piano)
Quadruple Fugue (completed by Donald Francis Tovey )
Two Quadruple Fugues (Rectus and Inversus) (Donald Francis Tovey )
(with Lionel Salter , piano)
Last of a series of six programmes
A monthly review of cultural and political trends in the U.S.S.R.
The Medical Services by Margaret Miller
The speaker travelled in Russia and studied economic conditions there during the early years of the Five-Year Plans. From 1939 to 1947 she was engaged in specialist work on Russia for the Foreign Office and for the U.S. State Department.
A portrait of Jonathan Swift
For details see Wednesday at 8.20
Elsie Morison (soprano)
Nancy Evans (mezzo-soprano)
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Rene Soames (tenor)
London Chamber Singers
George Malcolm (harpsichord)
London Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Andrew Cooper )
Conductor, Anthony Bernard
Four illustrated talks by George Rylands
3-Simplicity
Illustrations include poems by Vaughan, Blake, Wordsworth, Dame Gabriel Rossetti , Christina Rossetti , and Thomas Hardy.
Readers:
Jill Balcon , Michael Hordern
A children's tale for narrator and chamber orchestra
Words by Dr. Seuss and Gail Kubik
Music by Gail Kubik
Gilbert Webster (percussion)
Jon Farrell (narrator)
An Orchestral Ensemble
Conducted by the Composer Produced by Maurice Brown
Talk by Alan Pryce-Jones
A talk on the exaggerated attention paid to the contemporary cuLt of evil among writers from Sade to Jean Genet.
Conductor, Harry Blech
Divertimento in E flat (K.166.)AfozarJ Serenade for woodwind. Gordon Jacob