London Czech Trio
Jack Rothstein (violin) Karel Horitz (cello) Lisa Marketta (piano)

Written by MAURICE CRANSTON with Felix Aylmer as SIR HENRY MAINB Stephen Murray as MATTHEW ARNOLD Allan McClelland as JOHN MORLEY
Some of the most liberal intellectuals oi the Victorian period viewed the coming of democracy with dismay, and its few champions were on the defensive. Time has perhaps vindicated the democratic case so tar as England is concerned; but experience elsewhere may equally be seen as confirming the opinions of the critics of democracy.
Production by Douglas Cleverdon : second broadcast followed by an interlude at 7.30

Mozart and Brahms Joan Carlyile (soprano)
Geraint Evans ) (baritone) BBC Chorus
Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Paul Beard Conducted by Erich Leinsdorf
Part 1: Mozart
SYMPHONY No. 29, in A (K.201)
Next week's Saturday Concert will include three madrigals by Gesualdo and the first performance in this country of Monumentum, these three madrigals ' recomposed for orchestra ' by Stravinsky.

Irrelevant Art
Roberto Gerhard comments on the arguments put forward by Professor Wind' in the Reith Lectures that the arts, in a scientific age, have ceased to be a fundamental need

Part 2: Brahms REQUIEM

Second of two programmes by Deben Bhattacharyia based on recordings he made in the Middle East
In this talk he discusses Iran's contribution to Islamic chant and introduces examples of the virtuosity of Persian drummers.

piano
Pictures at an Exhibition
(Mussorgsky)
Sonata No. 7, in B flat (Prokofiev) on a gramophone record