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Herbert Downes (viola)
BBC Scottish Orchestra
(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conducted by Alexander Gibson
Norman Demuth 's Viola Concerto was completed in 1951. In it the viola is treated as a concertante instrument rather than a virtuoso soloist. The work consists of two linked sections: Andante con moto and Allegro molto.

Contributors

Viola:
Herbert Downes
Leader:
J. Mouland Begbie
Conducted By:
Alexander Gibson
Unknown:
Norman Demuth

.Talk by D. W. Lucas
P. M. Laurence , Reader in Classics, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge
A recently published book by Professor T. B. L. Webster assembles the available archaeological evidence bearing on the conditions in which classical Greek plays were originally produced. Mr. Lucas considers how far this evidence corresponds with the traditional conception of 'classical drama.'

Contributors

Talk By:
D. W. Lucas
Reader:
P. M. Laurence
Unknown:
T. B. L. Webster

and Jean-Louis Barrault in ‘LE MISANTHROPE’by Moliere
A broadcast performance in French of the Jean-Louis Barrault production
Produced for radio by J. Weltman
Cast in order of speaking:

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean-Louis Barrault
Unknown:
J. Weltman
Philinte:
Jean Desailly
Alceste:
Jean-Louis Barrault
Oronte:
Pierre Bertin
Celimene:
Madeleine Renaud
Basque:
Jacques Galland
Eliante:
Simone Valere
Clitandre:
Jean Pommier
Acaste:
Jean-Pierre Granval
Guard:
Gerard Dournel
Arsinoe:
Natalie Nerval
Du Bois:
Jean Juillard

(born November 25, 1856)
Piano Trio in D, Op. 22 played by the Neaman Trio:
Yfrah Neaman (violin) Eleanor Warren (cello) Lamar Crowson (piano)
This is the first of three programmes of chamber music by Taneyev. A pupil of Nicholas Rubinstein and Tchaikovsky, he was a Western-style composer rather than one of the Russian nationalist school such as Borodin.
The String Quartet No. 5, Op. 13, is to be broadcast on December 11, and the Piano Quintet, Op. 30, on December 16

Contributors

Violin:
Yfrah Neaman
Cello:
Eleanor Warren
Piano:
Lamar Crowson
Unknown:
Nicholas Rubinstein

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