played by Geraint Jones (organ)
Prelude and Fugue in A major
Prelude and Fugue in E flat major
(St. Anne)
: second broadcast From'St. Peter's Italian Church Clerkenwell Road. London
by W. M. S. Russell
In his book African Genesis Robert Ardrey concludes that man is irrevocably warlike. In a previous talk Dr. Michael Chance discussed some of the evidence which led Ardrey to this Position. Tonight Dr. W. M. S. Rus sell, ethologist and co-author of Human Behaviour, A New Approach, ascribes Ardrey's view to a static picture of human behaviour and gives an evolutionary answer.
: second broadcast
The Amici String Quartet Lionel Bentley (violin) Sylvia Cleaver (violin) Harold Harriott (viola) Joy Hall (cello)
Like all great modern music Bartok's six string quartets look back at the same time As they look forward. He himself said that Beethoven was their chief inspiration. The sixth quartet demonstrates very Well what he meant. It is ' classical ' in the univenal sense of the word: the emphasis is on what the musical ideaa become rather than on what they arc.
A book by Pierre Goubert , Beauvais et les Beauvaisis de 1600 a 1730, has been published recently in France. PETER LASLETT reviews this book in the light of the work he is doing on English Society and social statistics of the same period.
died December 14, 1861
Excerpts from his operas
Der Vampyr
Der Templer und die Jiidin and Hans Heiling
Elizabeth Fretwell (soprano)
Elsie Morison (soprano)
Anna Pollak (mezzo-soprano)
Lloyd Strauss-Smith (tenor) Otakar Kraus (baritone)
Ambrosian Singers
Philharmonia Orchestra Leader, Hugh Bean
Conducted by Leo Wurmser
Malcolm Keen and Leo Genn with Beverley Dunn in The Lark by Jean ANOUILH
Translated by Christopher Fry Adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pughe
Anouilh tells us, in the preface to his play, that he makes no attempt to explain the mystery of Joan. He intersperses her trial with a series of flashbacks, showing her whole career in a number of skilful and imaginative improvisations.
Production by Val Gielgud
: second broadcast
DURINC THE INTERVAL (9.45-9.55 app.) Movements from Ravel's Suite
Ma Mère VOye played by Robert Casadesus and Gaby Casadesus (piano duet) on a gramophone record
