The Dennis Brain
Wind Quartet:
Gareth Morris (flute)
Stephen Waters (clarinet)
Cecil James (bassoon)
Dennis Brain (horn)
Myra Verney (soprano)
Norman Franklin (accompanist)
Norman Kay , who was born in 1929, Mudied at the Royal College of Music with Gordon Jacob. He has written a symphony, a concertante for strings, a string quartet, and music for BBC features. His Miniature Quartet was written in 1950 and first performed at a concert in London that year. There are three movements.
R. W. Wood was born in London in 1902, and studied at the Royal College of Music with Richard Walthew , Gordon Jacob , and Herbert Howells. He has written a large amount of music of every kind. The first of his three songs was written in 1945, the other two in 1951: Myra Verney sang them for the first time at a concert in London last March. D.C.
A monthly review of cultural and political trends In the U.S.S.R.
The New Dictionary of the Russian Language
Talk by Ivan Bilibin
Max Rostal (violin)
The Rostal Chamber Ensemble
Adagio and Fugue (K.546)
Violin Concerto in G (K.216)
Eine kleine Nachtmusik (K.525)
A study in nineteenth-century environment
Robert Furneaux Jordan considers the lives and characters of Cardinal Manning and Cardinal Newman as people profoundly influenced by environment — the former by Rome, the latter by Oxford
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Tone Poem: Ein Heldenleben
Richard Strauss
(solo violin, Paul Beard )
From the Free Trade Hall,
Manchester
Talk by Malcolm Macdonald
Illustrations played by the Band of the Irish Guards, conducted by . Capt C. H. Jaeger , Director of Music
The speaker believes that the military band has a contribution to make to music in tihe concert hall as well as on the parade ground, and for this broadcast he has arranged various types of music to show the sort of colouring that is possible at indoor performances.
by August Strindberg
Translated by Edwin Bjorkman and N. Erichsen
Helga Mott (soprano)
Frederick Stone (piano)
The Sebastian Quartet:
John Glickman (violin) Sybil Copeland (violin) Harold Harriott (viola)
Ursula Hess (cello)
A reading of several of his poems arranged and introduced by Donald Davie
Reader, David Enders
Desmond Dupre (cittern)
The London Consort of Viols:
Harry Danks (treble viol)
Stanley Wootton (treble viol)
Sylvia Putterill (tenor viol)
Henry Revell (bass viol)
Robert Donington (bass viol)
