Eta Harich-Schneider harpsichord
Allemande; Sarabande; Courante; Les trois mains: Gavotte with variations ; Les Niais de Sologne on a gramophone record
by Benjamin Frankel
In this talk Benjamin Frankel considers the concept of music as an abstract art and advances an alternative to the idea of ' absolute music.'
: second broadcast
by NAOYA UCHIMURA
Translated by Geoffrey Bownas Music by Wataru Saito with Trevor Martin and Frank Duncan
Marathon was one of the Japan Broadcasting Corporation entries for the 1959 Italia Prize. It is the story-in words, music, and effects—of an unknown athlete's attempt to become Japan's representative in the Olympic marathon.
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company James Blades (solo percussion) Marjorie Westbury (soprano) and a section of the Ambrosian Singers
Music conducted by Max Saunders Production by ANTHONY THWAITH
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader. Paul Beard Conducted by Hans Rosbaud
Part 1
In Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa Stravinsky has recomposed for orchestra' the preceding Three Madrigals.
See page 5
Two talks by W. H. Thorpe
Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge These talks are a broadcast version of Dr. Thorpe's Eddington Memorial Lecture of November 1960.
In the second he considers the extent to which the working of the human mind, particularly in its appreciation of ultimate values, is illuminated by a study of animal psychology.
Part 2
Symphony No. 4, In A minor.Sibelius Another performance of the Symphony: March 26 (Home)
by T. S. ELIOT
Read by Hugh Burden
The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding
: second broadcast
Teresa Berganza mezzo-soprano
Felix LaviIIa piano LIEDERSPANISH SONGS
Recorded in the Royal Festival Hall at a public recital last June: previously broadcast in December