Talk by Stewart Deas
Professor of Music in the University of Sheffield
The twelve lieder by Schubert. Schumann . and Brahms which illustrate the talk are sung by Hans Hotter , accompanied by Frederick Stone
(The recorded broadcast of Feb. 22)
Poems by Heine in original and in translation: July 4
René Soames (tenor)
Carl Dolmetsch (recorder)
Joseph Saxby (harpsichord)
Aeolian String Quartet:
Sydney Humphreys , Trevor Williams
Watson Forbes , John Moore
Clifton HelliweIl (piano)
Meditation on Coeurs désolés, for recorder and harpsichord
Ave Maria gratia plena: two medieval songs
0 my deir hert
0 excellent virgin Princess
Fantasia on a theme of Machaut, for recorder, string quartet, and harpsichord
Songs:
A hymn to the Virgin: A widow bird sate mourning; Robin Red-breast; It was a lover and his lass; Rune of hospitality; A duan of Barra
Sixth of seven programmes
* of Rubbra's chamber works
A topical programme on the arts, literature, and entertainment
Three speakers comment on whatever seems of most immediate interest in the world of the various arts: exhibitions, new productions in the theatre, new films and books.
A programme of readings in Latin and English
Introduced by F. R. Dale
Can the original metres of Horace's odes be reproduced in English? Mr. Dale presents three of his own translations, and four others by Milton, Clough, Calverley, and J. B. Leishman , as examples of the different techniques that may be used.
Readers:
F. R. Date and David Raeburn
Violin Concerto
Heifetz (violin)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Fritz Reiner on gramophone records
See also Saturday at 8.60
Talk by Willem van Heerden
Editor of Dagbreek, Johannesburg Mr. van Heerden surveys some of the wider questions underlying the apartheid policy, and gives his reasons for be- . lieving that it is the only policy which is morally defensible and which, in view of the fact that all African peoples will eventually become entitled to the privilege of self-determination, gives a proper basis for the development of the sub-continent as a whole.
New Directions in Afrikaner Life and Thought, by Samuel Pauw : July 1
between John Locke and Anthony Ashley Cooper ,
Third Earl of Shaftesbury
Written by Maurice Cranston
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
In the summer of 1704, when toleration was a crucial public issue, John Locke was visited in Essex by his former pupil, Lord Shaftesbury. Maurice Cranston has drawn on the published and unpublished writings of John Locke to construct this dialogue between the philosopher and the earl.
('Death in the Air') A tragedy in one act by Toti Scialoja
Music by Goffredo Petrassi
(sung in Italian)
Women's Chorus
(Chorus-Master. Roberto Benaglio ) and Orchestra of Radiotelevisione Italiana, Milan
CONDUCTED BY BRUNO MADERNA
A talk by David Sylvester about the slowing down of Test cricket over the last twenty-five years
(The recorded broadcast of April 23)
The Wigmore Ensemble
