BBC Singers
Conducted by Harold Noble
Charles Spinks (organ)
The Martin String Quartet:
David Martin (violin)
Marjorie Lavers (violin)
Eileen Grainger (viola)
Bernard Richards (cello)
Sun and Moon. for unaccompanied chorus
String Quartet No.4
Psalm 97: The Lord reigns, for chorus and organ
Alexander Grechaninov , who will celebrate his ninetieth birthday next
Monday, was born in Moscow, where he studied the piano with Safonov. At the age of twenty-six he became a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire. After living in Paris for some years he eventually settled in the U.S.A. His output includes two operas, four symphonies, a large number of songs, much church music, and music for children. H. R.
Talk by C. P. FitzGerald
Professor of Oriental Studies in the Professor of Australian National University at Canberra
Written by Mungo MacCallum
Symphony No. 7
(first performance in this country) played by the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Reginald Whitehouse )
Conductor, Nicolai Malko
From the Town Hall, Leeds
Some shorter poems by Dante Alighieri, including, several from the Vita Nuova.
Gregor Piatigorsky (cello) BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Jean Martinon
Part 1
6-The Close of the Century
Talk by W. L. Burn
Professor of History in the University of Durham
The important question ceased to be what ought Brown to give and Smith to receive, and became what is X entitled to in law?
Last of a series of talks
Part 2
No. 6
A monthly programme of comment and observation
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) with Gerald Moore (piano)
Harfenspielerlieder:
An die Turen will ich schleichen; Wer nie sein Brot; Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt
Genialisch Treiben Anakreons Grab Lebewohl on gramophone records
