Pictures at an Exhibition played by Franz Reizenstein (piano)
1-Introductory Talk by Stuart Hampshire
Fellow of New College, Oxford
followed by an interlude at 6.65
William Parsons (bass-baritone)
The London Bach Society
The Riddick Orchestra
(Leader, Vera Kantrovitch )
Conducted by Paul Steinitz
' Alan Rawsthorne,' by Martin Cooper :
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This work was specially written for the London Bach Society, who performed it for the first time at St. Bartholomew's Church, Smithfield, on June 17. The words are by St. John of the Cross, translated by Roy Campbell ; the chorus isdivided into six parts.
A Study of Richard Crashaw's poetic style by T. 0. Beachcroft
Violin Concerto in D minor played by Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
New York
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Sir John Barbirolll on gramophone records
Six programmes devised by Professor Eduardo M. Torner
Scripts translated and read by John Gavall
3—Castilla
An observer's impressions of current life and opinion by Christopher Salmon
7-Town Houses and Country Air
The speaker talks about what he has seen of our housing problem and of changes in British rural life.
Bernard Lefort (baritone)
Germaine Tailleferre (piano)
The Wigmore Ensemble :
Geoffrey Gilbert (flute)
Terence MacDonagh (oboe)
Jack Brymer (clarinet)
Gwydlon Brooke (bassoon)
Dennis Brain (horn) Jean Pougnet (violin) Wilirdd Parry (piano)
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Germaine Ta lleterre belonged for a time to ' Les Six,' though like the other members (who include Milihaud and Poulenc) she has since followed her own pafh. These songs were recorded during Mme. Tailleferre's recent visit to this country; ' Le Chant de Narcisse' * from her cantata Narcisse, which was given at a Royal Philharmonic concert last May.
D. C.
by Stuart Piggott
Stuart Piggott, Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at Edinburgh University, speaks about the recent excavations on the island of Lipari.
Quartet in F, Op. 77 No. 2 played by the Hirsch String Quartet