London Philharmonic Orchestra
Leader, Henry Datyner Conducted by Kyril Kontlrashin
Part 1: Myaskovsky SYMPHONYNo. 16, In F first broadcast performance in this country
A centenary talk on Rabindranath Tagorc by Hallam Tennyson
Mr. Tennyson analyses the reasons for the decline in Tagore's reputation in the English-speaking world and gives his own assessment of the poet's achievement.
Part 2: Tchaikovsky
Suite No. 1, in D minor
by JOSEF SRYK
Translated by Charlotte and A. L. Lloyd
Cast in order of speaking
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Produced by CEDRIC MESSINA
Wilfred Lehmann (violin) with Josephine Lee (piano)
Fourth of five programmes including most of Schubert's music for violin and piano