BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Rudolf Schwarz

(recording of Thursday's broadcast)

by Stuart Piggott, Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology in the University of Edinburgh

A group of programmes about their impact on the ancient world

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

BBC Midland Chorus
Conductor, John Lowe
Introduced by Alec Robertson

Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah
Third Lection of Maundy Thursday, from the Third Set
Music during the Veneration of the Cross on Good Friday
Improperia-Crucem tuam-Pange lingua
Motet (four voices) for Lent: Adoramus te Christe
Hymn for Passion Sunday and Good Friday: Vexilla Regis prodeunt
Motet for Holy Saturday: Sicut cervus desiderat fontes aquarum
From the Oratory, Birmingham

Second of three programmes of choral music by Palestrina
(Mass, Ecce ego Joannes: April 25)

Opinions of his music expressed by contemporaries such as Goethe, by more recent men of letters, and by Schubert, Gounod, Tchaikovsky, Busoni, and other musicians.

The programme devised and narrated by A. Hyatt King

The medieval Cornish play freely translated into English verse and adapted for broadcasting by Terence Tiller
Music composed by Elizabeth Poston
Orchestra conducted by Douglas Robinson with Maurice Bevan (baritone) and a section of the Ambrosian Singers
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by Terence Tiller who writes on page 6

Piano Sonata in A (D.664) played by Solomon