Roy Pascal , Professor of German in the University of Birmingham, whose new translation of Goethe's play is to be broadcast at 3.20, gives an introductory talk in which he compares Goethe's version with the play by Euripides on which it is based.
at 9.10
Intermezzo giocoso by Domenico Cimarosa sung by Fernando Corena (bass) with l'Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano
Conducted by Bruno Amaducci on gramophone records
by Domenico Cimarosa on gramophone records: continued
A series of talks commenting on current legal Issues
12-Constructive Desertion and Cruelty as Grounds for Divorce by E. R. Dew Principal of the Law Society's School of Law
by Robert Casadesus
An illustrated talk by Michael Swan
The speaker recently went on a romeria, or religious picnic, to the shrine of the Virgin of Rocio. This is an uninhabited oasis in the desert country of Andalusia, visited for three days every year by a large crowd of pilgrims. Illustrations are taken from recordings made by Alan Lomax of the pilgrims' songs and dances.
of Dante Alighieri
The first cantica of the Divine
Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon
A reading in six parts
PART I
(Cantos 1-5)
Dante in the wood of Error; meeting of the poets; the reluctance of Dante, and Virgil's exhortation to the journey; the vestibule of Hell; the First Circle or Limbo; the Second Circle; the story of Paolo and Francesca
Personae:
Produced by Peter Duval Smith
Campoli (violin)
Frederick Riddle (viola)
Elsie Morison (soprano)
Norma Procter (contralto)
John Carolan (tenor)
Stanley Clarkson (bass)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master. Leslie Woodgate )
Charles Spihks (organ)
London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Granville Jones )
Conducted by Anthony Collins
Part 1: Mozart
Missa Brevis in C (K.259)
Sinfonia Concertante. for violin, viola, and orchestra (K.364)
Last of a series of concerts including lesser-known choral works by Mozart
I-Richard Cobden
Talk by W. D. Grampp
Assistant Professor of Economics
In the University of Illinois, Chicago This is the first of a series of talks intended to illustrate the development of a social conscience which was in many respects peculiar to England and to the nineteenth century.
Part 2: Kodaly
Concerto for Orchestra Te Deum
Pieter Geyl talks about the recently published volume of historical studies, ' Hitler's Europe,' edited by Veronica M. Toynbee and Arnold Toynbee
Sonata in F, Op. 99 played by Paul Tortelier (cello) Ernest Lush (piano)
First of twelve programmes of chamber music by Brahms
A story cycle translated from the medieval
Welsh by W. M. Merchant
Readers:
Jill Balcon , Robert Harris .
Robert Rietty. Leonard Sachs
Gerik Schjelderup , Ronald Simpson
Music composed by Peter Crossley-Holland played by Douglas Moore (horn) and the composer (minstrel's harp)
