Frank Merrick (piano)
BBC Scottish Orchestra
'(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conductor, Ian Whyte
Four talks by Hessell Tiltman
Manchester Guardian
Far Eastern correspondent
1 — Politics
In these talks Mr. Tiltman speaks about the post-war years.
(The recorded broadcast of Nov. 2)
Sonata No. 4. in D minor for unaccompanied violin played by Yehudi Menuhin on gramophone records
4 — ' Ode on a Grecian Urn' by John Keats
Talk by William Walsh
The poem is read by Christopher Hassall before and after the talk
In this series critics are invited to take a single poem, or passage from a poem, and examine it in as much detail as they see fit in order to bring out the full meaning.
Missa Liturgies
Kyrie; Gloria in excelsis; Credo; Sanctus; Benedictus; Agnus Dei
BBC Singers conducted by the composer
77th Lord of Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
Adapted as a play for broadcasting by the author
Incidental music composed and conducted by Arthur Oldham
Produced by Francis Dillon
The Element Quartet:
Ernest Element (violin)
Kenneth Page (violin)
Dorothy Hemming (viola)
Oliver Brookes (cello)
Philip Hope-Wallace talks about the French chanteuse legere, and plays records she made of songs from La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein by Offenbach, L'Amour Masque by Messager, Mozart by Reynaldo Hahn , and Mariette by Oscar, Straus.