Minuet and Trio in G (K.l)
Variations on Salieri's Mio caro,
Adone' (K.180)
Rondo in F (K.616) played by Walter Gleseking (piano) on gramophone records
Talk by Malcolm Macdonald
Illustrations played by the Band of the Irish Guards
Conducted by Captain C. H. Jaeger.
Director of Music
Mr. Macdonald believes that the military band has a contribution to make to mure in the concert hall as well as on the parade ground, and for this programme he has arranged various types of music toshow the sort of colouring that is possible for indoor performances.
(The music is recorded)
and two other new ballads written and read by William Plomer
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet)
Maria Lidka (violin)
John Glickman (violin)
The Boyd Neel Orchestra
(Leader, Granville Jones )
Conducted by John Pritchard
In its original form Matyas Seiber's Concertino was a Divertimento for clarinet and string quartet written in 1926 during a twenty-four-hour train journey from Frankfurt to Budapest. Two years later he revised the work and gave it a new finale; and in 1951 he re-scored it as a Concertino There are five movements.
Talk by Austen Albu , M.P.
Mr. Albu, who is vice-chairman of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, talks about the relationship of science and industry in the light of several reports on the subject.
by Dylan Thomas
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon and The songs set by Daniel Jones
Children's songs and singing game recorded by children of Laugharne School
Six songs transcribed and arranged by Egon Wellesz
Myra Verney (soprano)
Wilfred Brown (tenor)
Harry Danks (viola d'amore)
Introduced by Denis Stevens
Be m'an perdut tai enves Ventadorn; Lancan vei la folha; Amors, e que us es vejaire?; Can voi ta lauzeta mover; Era m cosselhatz, senhor; Can I'herba fresch' elh folha par
Bernart de Ventadorn, whose youth was passed in the service of the dukes of Ventadorn in Corrèze, was the only troubadour known to have visited England. He came in response to a royal invitation a year after the marr.age of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine, perhaps the greatest protectresa and advocate of courtly love in the twelfth century. Eighteen of Bemart'a songs have survived with their original melodies. U.S.
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A monthly programme of comment and observation
Speakers:
Kathleen Nott
' The Decline of Fun '
John Holloway
' New Territory for the Critic
Angus Wilson
' The Future of Fiction '
F. W. Bateson
' A Harsh Word for the Novelist ’
(The recorded broadcast of April 14)