Paul Tortelier (cello)
London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Hugh Maguire )
Conducted by Norman Del Mar
Part 1

A weekly review of the arts including:
A review of a record of Philip Larkin reading the poems from The Less Deceived.

Part 2
Havergal Brian was born in Dresden, Staffordshire, on January 29, 1876. His Symphony No. 9, which had its first broadcast performance in the Third Programme last March, is one of a series of twelve composed between 1922 and 1956. It was begun in July 1951 and finished the following November, and is inscribed to Eric Warr , BBC Assistant Head of Sound Music Programmes. Scored for large orchestra, including organ and bells, it is in three short movements played without a break.

introduces and reads a selection of his poems

Octet in F played by The Vienna Octet:
Alfred Boskovsky (clarinet)
Rudolf Hanzl (bassoon)
Josef Veleba (horn)
Willi Boskovsky (violin) Philipp Matheis (violin)
Gunther Breitenbach (viola)
Nikolaus Hlibner (cello)
Johann Krump (double-bass) on a gramophone record