Gordon Watson (piano)

E. H. Gombrich , Reader in History in the University of London, speaks about the libretto of Mozart's opera which, he suggests, derives from Ovid's myth Cephalus and Procris.
A performance of 'Cosi fan Tutte ' from Glyndebourne: July 29

or Mr. Punch's Biography of George Bernard Shaw
Edited and produced by Terence Tiller

A series of four programmes of seventeenth-century music devised by Anthony Lewis
1-Germany
Ilse Wolf (soprano)
Helen Watts (contralto)
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Wilfred Brown (tenor) David Galliver (tenor)
Maurice Bevan (baritone)
Trevor Anthony (bass)
Continuo:
Clifton Helliwell (harpsichord) and Charles Spinks (organ)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
The Goldsbrough Orchestra
(Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz )
Conducted by Anthony Lewis
From St. Gabriel's Church,
Cricklewood, London
Part 1

Talk by Gilberto Freyre
The development of modern Brazil is producing an entirely new type of civilisation: that is the theme of this talk, in which Dr. Gilberto F.cyre, the distinguished Brazilian sociologist, traces some of the influences that are contributing to the evolution of his country.

Part 2

A series of five talks on some instances of learned invention and forgery
2-A Pindaric Melodyby R. P. Winnington-Ingram
Professor of Greek Language and Literature. University of London
(King's College)
In 1650 a Jesuit scholar, Athanasius Kircher, published a rare specimen of ancient Greek music-a fragmentary melody to an ode of Pindar. He claimed to have found it in a manuscript in a Sicilian monastery, but no one else has ever seen the manuscript and it has been suggested that Kircher wrote the melody himself.

Piano Trio in A, Op. 43 played by the Robert Masters Piano Trio:
Robert Masters (violin)
Muriel Taylor (cello)
Kinloch Anderson (piano)

A talk recorded by Shaw in 1927 for the Linguaphone Institute

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
With
Walter Gieseking (piano)
Oiseaux, si tous les ans; Dans un bois solitaire; Als Luise die Briefe; Abendempfindung; Das Kinderspiel; Das Traumbild; Das Veilchen; Das Lied der Trennung; Sehnsucht nach dem Fruhlinge on gramophone records