BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Part 1
Overture : Cyrano de Bergerac
Reizenstein
Symphony No. 4 (Deliciae Basi-
Itenses) Honegger
Talk by George Pendle
A second talk :
Britons and Argentines, March 17
Part 2
Another performance : tomorrow at 7.50
W. Bridges-Adams describes some of the productions of Sir Henry Irving 's two sons, H.B. and Laurence Irving
Quartet No. 4 (1953) played by the Griller String Quartet on gramophone records
Don Taylor , Editor of New Commonwealth, examines the influences that are shaping the destiny of Australia and New Zealand
To be repeated on March 5 followed by an interlude at 9,5
A discovery for radio by Henry Reed
Production by Douglas Cleverdon
The fragments of Hilda Tablet 's "musique concrete renforcee" and the two settings of "There once was a garden" realised by Donald Swann
by Maurice Cole
Sonata for piano...Lennox Berkeley
Sonata In E, Op. 109..Beethoven
(The recorded broadcast of January 20, 1955)
An illustrated talk by Jeremy Sandford
The illustrations were recorded at an exhibition of mechanical music held in Geneva last September. Examples include musical boxes from about 1800 onwards, automatic violins, and a mechanical orchestra.
(The recorded broadcast of Dec. 24)