Talk by C. A. R. Crosland
Mr. Crosland examines the national outlay on advertising and considers how far it can be justified on economic grounds.
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.
.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.'
(1878-1917)
Selected and introduced by Patric Dickinson
Readers: '
Derek Hart , David Lloyd James
Ambrosian Singers
Conducted by Douglas Robinson
Charles Spinks (organ)
From St. Gabriel's, Cricklewood
Fifth of six programmes of twentieth-century choral music
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:
(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