Sonata in D (D.850)
Allegro vivace; Con moto; Scherzo and Trio; Rondo (allegro moderato) played by Clifford Curzon (piano)
A talk by Harold Nicolson on a disregarded minority
Being a record of a first sight of Greece: by Dorothy Baker This is an account of a journey made a year ago when the writer visited many well-known sites and places in Greece -and, in search of Ancient Greece, found the modern Greeks. The programme is presented as a series of dramatic impressions of people and places. with Julia Lang as Narrator and including Valentine Dyall , Alec Finter , John Gabriel , Gawn Grainger , Joan Hart , Neville Hartley , Warren Hearnden , Anthony Jacobs , Miriam Lehmann , Edgar Norfolk. Bryan Powley, Robert Rietty , John Sharp. Martin Starkie , John Stockbridge , Ann Totten
Production by Christopher Sykes
PART 1
William Mann writes on page 4
by Sacheverell Sitwell
Sacheverell Sitwell recently paid his first visit to some Eastern countries on which his imagination had been playing for a long time. In the present talk he describes his first impressions of some of the ancient and famous mosques in the Persian town of Isfahan.
To be repeated on October 7
Nuptials of the East and West: Oct. 13
PART 2
A lecture by W. H. Auden
Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford
(A recording of his Inaugural Lecture delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, on June 11)
pay homage to their betters
Music arranged by Bill Williamson conducted by Nat Temple
Produced by Francis Dillon
The Jacobean Ensemble :
Neville Marriner (violin)
Peter Gibbs (violin)
Desmond Dupr é (viola da gamba)
Thurston Dart
(organ and harpsichord)