5-The Earliest Music and Duets for Voices and Lute
Elizabeth Cooper (soprano)
Eileen McLoughlin (soprano)
Michel Podolski (lute)
Desmond Dupr (viola da gamba)
George Fielding Elliot comments on recent developments in the planning of American strategy
Octet in F, Op. 166 played by the Vienna Octet on gramophone records
A monthly report on the arts, science, and politics abroad
Compiled by Alan Pryce-Jones
Including a comment by T. F. Burns on current intellectual trends in Spain, and a report by L. L. Whyte on biological research in Israel.
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor,
Sir Malcolm Sargent
From the Kurzaal, Scheveningen
The Battle of Waterloo
The day after the Battle of Waterloo, which was fought on June 18, 1815, Captain Thomas Wildman of the 7th Hussars wrote a long description of the engagement. His letter, which has never been published, is introduced by Sir Grimwood Mears and read by Leslie Stokes. ' As a grand military affair,' Captain Wildman wrote of Waterloo, 'it will probably for ever stand unrivalled and alone.'
A new version of the ' Trachiniae of Sophocles, by Ezra Pound
Chorus of Trachinian women;
Joan Hart , Myrtle Rowe , and Olive Gregg
Characters referred to in the play:
Axelods, a river, symbol of the power of damp and darkness
Iole, Tomorrow, daughter of King Burytua Music composed and conducted by John Hotchkis
Produced by D. G. Bridson and Christopher Sykes
Franz Reizenstein (piano)
