Tessa Bloom (piano)
Roger Lord (oboe)
The Virtuoso String Trio:
Neville Marriner (violin) Stephen Shingles (viola)
Alexander Kok (cello)
Adcxei Haieti , who was born ;n Siberia in 1914 is now an American citizen. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, where he won the Prix de Rome shorty attar the war. His Five Pieces for piano were commissioned by the Juiltiard Foundation and published six years ago.
Anthony Milner was born in Bristol in 1925 He studied With R. 0. Morris and Matyas Seitoer , and ie at present a Lecturer in Music at Morley College, London His Salutario Angelica was performed at the festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music in Oslo last summer, and his Oboe Quartet was written shortly afterwards D.C.
The Counter-Reformation and Spanish Literature Talk by A. A. Parker
The religious orthodoxy imposed on Spain by the Counter-Reformation is generally considered to have plunged Spanish culture into spiritual gloom and intellectual stagnation. A. A. Parker , Professor of Spanish at London University, compares this opinion with the evidence offered by Spanish literature. He suggests that, in fact, there was during this period a free and deeper speculation on the nature of man and society.
(The recorded broadcast of Feb. 13)
Third of a group of talks
conducts the Oriana Madrigal Society and the BBC Singers in a programme of music dedicated to him
Eileen Poulter (soprano)
Sheila Mugridge (soprano)
Kathleen Kay (contralto)
Wilfred Brown (tenor)
Stanley Riley (bass)
Talk by Frank Kermode
Frank Kermode speaks about the Cambridge quarterly review of literary criticism Scrutiny, witth which F. R. Leavis was associated from its founding in 1932. It has now ceased publication. Its last controversy was with F. W. Bateson , editor of Essays in Criticism, on the relevance to criticism of literary history.
followed by an interlude at 7.60
16-Extracts from
' La Merope'
An opera in three acts by Domingo Terradellas
Text by Apostolo Zeno (Italian)
A reading of his poems
' Under Milk Wood Saturday at 6.0
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Illustrated talk by Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis is conducting the performance of the Vespers tomorrow at 7.30 p.m.
An interview by Henry Mayhew Adapted by Douglas Cleverdon from 'London Labour and the London Poor' with Diana Maddox and Carleton Hobbs (The recorded broadcast of Sept. 11)
Sonata for violin and cello played by Jean Pougnet (violin)
Anthony Pini (cello)
