.. Florence Hooton (cello)
Ross Pratt (piano)
The second of two talks
by Fritz Rothschild
'Mr. Rothschild's book on Bach, The
Lost Tradition, aronsed widespread comment. He is now working on the conventions of tempo, time signatures, and accentuation accepted by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
77th Lord of Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
Adapted as a play for
broadcasting by the author
Incidental music by Arthur Oldham
Produced by Francis Dillon
Frederick Grinke (violin) BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Part 1
And Its Political Consequence
Eugene J. McCarthy , Member of Congress from the Fourth District of Minnesota, speaks about the Americans' attitude towards domestic and foreign policy
Part 2
by Nikolaus Pevsner
5—Blake and the Flaming Line
At first sight the qualities of William Blake seem to be the contraries of English qualities defined so far in these lectures: he is not rational, not factual, not detached. Dr. Pevsner suggests, however, that Blake's drawing has remarkable affinities with the Decorated style of English architecture, and equally with Hogarth's theory of beauty. Unlike, say, the Italians, the English have no confidence in the body. The English speciality, in Dr. Pevsner's view, is 1 scintillating line.' ,
Six Preludes and Fugues (Das wohltemperirte Clavier)
C minor (Book 1); C sharp (Book 1); D minor (Book 2); F minor (Book 2);
G (Book 2); B flat (Book 1) played by Frank Pelleg (harpsichord)
4 — * Ode on a Grecian Urn *
Talk by William Walsh