played by the Virtuoso Chamber Ensemble:
Lionel Bentley (violin) Patrick Hailing (violin) Gwynne Edwards (viola)
Eileen Grainger (viola) Willem de Mont (cello)
George Yates (double-bass)
Edward Walker (flute)
Roger Lord (oboe)
Sidney Fell (clarinet) John Burden (horn)
Andrew McGavin (horn)
Marie Goossens (harp)
Pamela Harrison (wife of Harvey Phillips , the cellist and conductor) has had several of her compositions broadcast, including two cycles of orchestral songs to poems by Baudelaire and Ernest Dowson , and sonatas for viola and cello. The Quintet, one of her earlier works, was written in 1938 and first performed that year at a concert of the Society for the Promotion of New Music; it is tonight receiving its first broadcast performance. It is light-hearted in character and is in five movements: Andante semplice, Tempo di valse, Alia serenata, Presto, and Poco lento. D.C.
Talk by J. Hampden Jackson
'Modern Art in Finland' is the title of an exhibition of paintings, sculpture, graphic and applied arts now being shown in London at the Now Burlington Galleries. Mr. Hampden Jackson , who is a historian rather than an art critic, talks a.bout it in terms of the social background from which the exhibits have sprung.
Ayres for Four Voices
The Golden Age Singers: Margaret Field-Hyde (soprano), Elizabeth Osborn (soprano), John Whitworth (counter-tenor), Rene Soames (tenor), Gordon Clinton (baritone)
Directed by Margaret Field-Hyde
With Julian Bream (lute)
The London Consort of Viols: Harry Danks (tenor viol), Desmond Dupre (tenor viol), Henry Revell (bass viol)
Weep you no more, sad fountains; My thoughts are wing'd with hopes: Clear or cloudy: Dialogue, Come when I call; Where sin sore wounding; Thou mighty God; Now, oh now I needs must part
Third of four programmes of ayres by Dowland from Musica Britannica, vol. 6.
by J. Robert Oppenheimer
In this lecture Dr. Oppenheimer describes the change in scientific outlook since Bohr and Rutherford put forward their ideas on atomic structure a generation ago.
(The recorded broadcast of November 29 in the Home Service)
Organ Concertos:
No. 9, in B flat, Op. 7 No. 3
No. 11, in G minor. Op. 7 No. 5 played by Walter Kraft (organ)
Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra of Stuttgart
Conductor. Rolf Reinhardt
Helma Elsner (harpsichord) on gramophone records
A study of A. E. Housman by Paitric Dickinson
by Tomford Harris
Illustrated talk by Hugh Tracey The speaker, who was Regional Director of Broadcasting in Durban for more than twelve years and is honorary secretary of the African Music Society, has spent the last few years recording African folk music in the southern half of the continent. He illustrates his talk with some of thete recordings.
(harp)
