(mezzo-soprano) with Jacqueline Bonneau (piano)
Cinq mélodies populaires grecques
(Ravel)
Two Greek Folk Songs:
The maiden of Alatsata (arr. Spathi) Dourou-dourou (orr. Sfakianakis) on gramophone records
The story by D. H. Lawrence read by Carleton Hobbs
Sonata in A flat, Op. 110 played by Walter Gieseking (piano)
Sonata in C minor, Op. Ill: tomorrow, 10.15
Talk by Frank Kermode, Lecturer in English Literature at Reading University
Mr. Kermode considers the part literary history can play in the appreciation of neglected books. The work he has chose as illustration is Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece.
Myra Hess (piano)
William Primrose (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductors: Sir Malcolm Sargent and Trevor Harvey
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Part 1
Overture: II Viaggio a Reims Rossini
7.41 app. Piano Concerto No. 4, in G
Beethoven
8.17 app. Symphony No. 2. in D minor
Dvorak
A personal story by Denis Johnston
The speaker was a schoolboy home for the holidays at the time of the Irish rebellion of 1916. He and his family became prisoners in their own house, since it was occuped and fortified by the rebels... In this talk he recalls the experience and the attitude of his captors.
Part 2
A survey of the life and work of Henry VIII 's
Master of the Chapel Royal
Written and produced by Douglas Cleverdon
The Deller Consort
The Schola Polyphonica
Director, Henry Washington and The London Consort of Viols
Narrator, James McKechnie with Arthur Bush. Frank Duncan and Norman Shelley
Music transcribed and edited by Frank Harrison
The versatility 01 musicans attached to the court of Henry VIII is well illusiraled in the character of William Cornyshe. Has music was equally well known in both church and theatre, and copes of his motets even penetrated to Scotland. As poet and dramatist Cornyshe was capabe though at times ind screet: one sharply pointed satire caused h:s temporary anprisonment D.S.
Some thoughts suggested to Sir George Sansom by recent studies of Japan and in particular bv Frank Gibneys book Five Gentlemen of Japan
Musica da Camera:
Harold Clarke (flute) Wilfred Smith (tlute)
Robert Catlermole (oboe)
Sidney Fell (clarinet)
Charles Gregory (horn)
Archie Camden (bassoon)
Hubert Dawkes (piano)