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Gordon Clinton (baritone)
The Hirsch String Quartet: Leonard Hirsch (violin) Leonard Dight (violin) Stephen Shingles (viola) Francisco Gabarro (cello)
Gwendolen Mason (harp)

Eric Fogg (1903-39) won success as a composer when he was little more than a boy. In 1924 he joined the staff of the BBC and later became conductor of the BBC Empire Orchestra. His sensitive setting of Keats's Ode was composed when he was twenty-one.

Contributors

Baritone:
Gordon Clinton
Violinist:
Leonard Hirsch
Violinist:
Leonard Dight
Violaist:
Stephen Shingles
Cellist:
Francisco Gabarro
Harpist:
Gwendolen Mason

Dennis Brain (horn)
Yvonne Loriod (piano)
Ginette Martenot (ondes Martenot)
London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Thomas Matthews )
Conducted by Walter Goehr
From the Royal Festival Hall, London
Part 1
The first of four concerts of works by classical and contemporary composers presented by the BBC Third Programme at the Royal Festival Hall. The other concerts will include: Matyas Seiber 's cantata Ulysses, conducted by Hans Rosbaud (April 19); Luigi Dallapiccola's one-act opera // Prigioniero, conducted by Herman Scherdhen :May 3); and Stravinsky 's Le Sacre du Printemps, conducted by Igor Markevitoh (May 10).

Contributors

Horn:
Dennis Brain
Piano:
Yvonne Loriod
Piano:
Ginette Martenot
Leader:
Thomas Matthews
Conducted By:
Walter Goehr
Unknown:
Matyas Seiber
Conducted By:
Hans Rosbaud
Conducted By:
Herman Scherdhen
Conducted By:
Stravinsky
Conducted By:
Igor Markevitoh

The Fruits of Patience
Last of three talks by »
Stephen Toulmin
Lecturer in the Philosophy of Science in the University of Oxford
In these talks Mr. Toulmin asks why ethics seems to make so much less progress than natural science, asnd suggests that rh:s apparent immobility is an illusion which comes of our expect ng the wrong sort of answers from tlhe subject. The talks are a revised version of a lecure delivered to the Royal Institute of Philosophy on November 27.

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Toulmin

Marian motets and a cyclic Mass transcribed and edited by Manfred F. Bukofzer
Regina celi letare: Salve regina mater mire: Quam pulcra es sung by the Salisbury Cathedral Choir
Director, Douglas Guest with an instrumental ensemble
Mass: Rex'seculorum
Gloria; Credo; Sanctus: Agnus Dei sung by the Schola Polyphonies
Director. Henry Washington with the Vintuoso Chamber Ensemble
(s: previously broadcast on November 13 and 21)

Contributors

Unknown:
Marian Motets
Edited By:
Manfred F. Bukofzer
Director:
Douglas Guest
Unknown:
Agnus Dei
Director:
Henry Washington

Four talks on the Novel by Owen Holloway
2-Distinction of Persons
The speaker sees much of the unique quality of prose notion in what he calls its ' language of person ' The novehM, he suggests, is at his most characteristic when he i making play with the relationship between his characters, bit readers, and himself
(The recorded broadcast of Feb. 4)

Contributors

Novel By:
Owen Holloway

Third Programme

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