Sonatinas (Op. 89)
No. 3, in F; No.4, in A minor played by Celia Arieli (piano)
Second of two programmes
Neville Rogers , Leverhulme Research Fellow 1952-3, and editor of the forthcotning revised Oxford Shelley, speaks of the poet as he appears in his manuscripts and working notebooks
The Italian String Quartet:
Paolo Borciani (violin) Elisa Pegreffi (violin) Piero Farulli (viola) Franco Rossi (cello)
The Evolution of Cotton
Talk by Clement Brown
Mr. Brown was for thirty years in charge of t'he cotton-breeding department of the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture. He is now advising the French on the growing of Egyptian cotton.
Irish pipe tunes and songs that became popular ballads in Britain and the U.S.A. compared and set for instruments and voices by Spike Hughes with Rita McKerrow (soprano)
James Johnston (tenor)
Trefor Jones (tenor)
Robert Irwin (baritone)
Written and narrated by Seumas Ennis who also plays the Uileanm pipes and sings the Gaelic versions of the songs
Produced by Francis Dillon
by Pierre Schaeffer
This is one of Schaeffer's most important creations in the Mus:que Concrete idiom. There are ten short movements: Prosapopee; Partita; Valse; Erotica; Scherzo; Cadence; Eroica; Apostrophe; intermezzo; Strette.
A discussion between Maurice Cranston and J. W. N. Watkins
J. W. N. Watkins , Lecturer in Political Science at the - London School of Economics, raises the question of predictability and responsibility discussed in Maurice Cranston 's book Freedom: a new analysis, published last year.
A survey of Spanish music prepared by Roberto Gerhard and Lionel Salter
14—Theatre Music of the 17th and 18th Centuries
Myra Verney (soprano)
BBC Singers conducted and accompanied by Lionel Salter
(Continued in next column)
Introduced by Roberto Gerhard
Talk by Norman Gibbs
The War in France and Flanders, 1939-40, the second volume of the official History of the Second World War, has recently been published.
Quintet, Op. 39
Alec Whittaker (oboe) Sidney Fell (clarinet) Olive Zorian (violin) Bernard Davis (viola)
Eugene Cruft (double-bass)
(The recorded broadcast of Nov. 29)