Libretto by Louis Gallet and Edouard Blau
Music by Bizet
(sung in the original French)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader. Granville Jones )
Conducted by Stanford Robinson
Three talks by John Holloway
3-This Trick of Metaphors
Taking examples from the work of contemporary scholars and critics, Mr. Holloway considers the way in which figurative language and analogy can influence literary criticism.
('Die Abreise')
An opera in one act: libretto by A. von Steigentesch , in collaboration with Ferdinand von Sporck
English version by David Harris
Music by Eugen d'Albert
London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader. Granville Jones )
Conducted by Stanford Robinson
Producer, Mark Lubbock
The action takes place in a large country house in Germany towards the end of the eighteenth century.
by Leonid Andreyev
Arranged for broadcasting
.by Sasha Moorsom
Production by Christopher Sykea
Thurston Dart (harpsichord)
Pavvon (Newman)
Galiardo (John Bull)
The Prince of Denmark's March
(Jeremiah Clarke)
Two Corants (John Blow)
Fugue in G minor (Thomas Roseingrave) on gramophone records
by Bernard Lewis
Professor of the History of the Near and Middle East,
University of London
2-The Infidel Invaders
This is the second of two programmes, based on Professor Lewis's recent researches into medieval Islamic literature, in which he introduces selected readings to illustrate the growth of Muslim knowledge of Europe. In this programme he shows how the East's conception of the West was modified by the experience of the Crusades.
by W. B. Yeats
Scene: A ruined house with a bare tree
Production by Frederick Bradnum
The Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble:
Stephen Waters (clarinet) Archibald Jacob (clarinet)
Dennis Brain (horn) Neill Sanders (horn) Cecil James (bassoon)
The four quintets by J. C. Bach to be broadcast in two programmes, tonight and on Thursday, were discovered last year in the library of the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin, by Stanley Sadie, who has edited them for performance.
A series of eightlectures by Sir Ivor Jennings , K.B.E., Q.c.
2-Plural Societies
Sonata in G, Op. 30 No. 3 played by Szymon Goldberg (violin)
Ernest Lush (piano)
