Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
(Leader, Charles Taylor)
Conducted by Ernest Ansermet
From the Usher Hall, Edinburgh.

Ballet Suite: Apollon Musagete
Divertimento (Le Baiser de la Fee)

by Edmund Spenser (?1652-1699).
Introduced by Rayner Heppenstall.
(BBC recording)

Ballet Suite: Petrushka

A talk by Bernard Wall on Boris Pasternak's novel Dr. Zhivago.
This novel, though published in Italy, France, and today in England, has not so far been allowed to appear in Russia.
Perhaps the essence of the book is contained in the words of the heroine: 'As for such petty trifles as reshaping the world, it's not in our line'.
(BBC recording)

George Guest (organ)
BBC Chorus
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
Rhapsody in D flat, Op. 17 No. 1 (1915)
Four Anthems, for chorus and organ (1940)
We O pray for the peace of Jerusalem; We have heard with our ears; Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks; Let God arise
Psalm-Prelude No. 3 (1939)
(BBC recording)