by F. J. Odgers
Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
The law concerning the care of animals needs clarification.
(The recorded broadcast of May 13)
STRING QUARTET in F
CHORAL SCENE (The Bacchae)
Allegri Quartet:
Eli Goren , James Barton
Patrick Ireland, William Pleeth
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
Charles Spinks (organ)
Conducted by Douglas Guest
First of three programmes
Both these works appeared in 1953: the quartet was first performed at the Cheltenham Festival that year; the Choral Scene was commissioned by the Leeds Triennial Festival. The text of the latter is from Gilbert Murray 's translation of the Bacchae of Euripides (' Will they ever come to me ever again, the long, long dances....."). The work is for double choir-the second choir singing without words-with the organ playing a supporting role.
by Roberto Gerhard
' In music, one of our senses meets a whole world of dynamic events that, to be sure, require a physical link in order to produce the encounter, but of whose presence the physical world is, so to speak, otherwise entirely ignorant.'
This is the central thesis of Victor Zuckerkandl 's book Sound and Symbol, which is reviewed in this talk.
Marion Lowe (soprano)
Maurice Cole (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
(Led by Harold Parfitt )
Conducted by Basil Cameron
Overture: Fingal's Cave...Mendelssohn Ludmila's Prayer (St. Ludmila)
Dvorak
Piano Concerto In A minor... Schumann
From the Royal Albert Hall. London
[Starring] Beatrix Lehmann, Esme Percy, Ernestine Costa and Bill Owen
A Berlin tragi-comedy by Gerhart Hauptmann
The action takes place in a Berlin tenement block, formerly a cavalry barracks, at the turn of the century: in the attic where Hassenreuter has his theatrical storeroom and drama school, and in Frau John 's flat.
(The recorded broadcast of June 16)
DURING THE INTERVAL (9.25-9.36 app.):
Richard Strauss
Love Scene (Feuersnot) played by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, Bt. (on a gramophone record)
Sonata a tre played by the St. Cecilia Trio:
Sylvia Cleaver (violin) Norman Jones (cello)
Pauline Howgill (piano)
