Sonata In C minor, Op. 45 played by Frederick Grinke (violin)
Kendall Taylor (piano)
of Sophocles
English version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald
Arranged for broadcasting and produced by Raymond Raikes
Music composed by Anthony Bernard
Chorus of Theban Elders: Laidman Browne (leader
William Devlin ) , Valentine Dyall
Tom Hemsley (baritone) London Chamber Singers with the London Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Andrew Cooper )
Conductor, Anthony Bernard
Excerpts from the Greek text
Readers: Cecil Trouncer
Deryck Guyler , Heather Brown
Denis McCarthy , Philip Vellacott
Programme introduced by Raymond Raikes and edited by Heather Brown
Louis Kaufman (violin)
George Malcolm (harpsichord) Philharmonia Orchestra
(Leader Manoug Parikian )
Conducted by Patrick Savill
Talk by E. M. Forster
Just over a hundred years ago Macaulay stated that Indian art was hideous, grotesque, and ignoble. In his review of the recently published volume in The Pelican History of Art: the Art and Architecture of India by Professor Benjamin Rowland , Mr. Forster comments on the distance we have travelled in our understanding of that art since Macaulay's day.
Songs and Dances of Death sung by Jennie Tourel (mezzo-soprano) with Leonard Bernstein (piano) on gramophone records
A selection from
' The Sea and the Mirror'
A commentary on Shakespeare's ' The Tempest'
Readers:
Reginald BeckwMh , Laidman Browne
Beryl Calder , Andrew Faulds
Michael Flanders , Hallam Fordham
Garleton Hobbs , Joseph O'Conor
Production by Frank Hauser
Missa Caput
The Ambrosian Singers with James Whelan (trombone)
Talk by Norman Baynes
Emeritus Professor of Byzantine
History in the University of London
This is the first of three talks commemorating the quincentenary of the fall of Byzantium. The second talk will be broadcast on Thursday at 10.50 and the last on Friday at 11.40. See also Tuesday at 6.25.
