Concerto in B flat major for lute and harp reconstructed by Thurston Dart
Desmond Dupre (lute) Osian Ellis (harp)
Philomusica of London
Directed by Granville Jones on a gramophone record
by Michael Swann F.R.S. ,of the University of Edinburgh
Professor Swann asks' Has not science, by providing the means for mass communication, global travel, genocide, and increased longevity, intensified beyond all belief political trouble throughout the world.' What then, apart from their discoveries, can scientists offer the world outside their laboratories?
Max Rostal (violin)
Colin Horsley (piano)
by BERTOLT BRECHT
Translated by Charlotte Lloyd and A. L. Lloyd
S: About France or Patriotism; about Denmark or the sense of humour; on Hegel's Dialectic; about Sweden or the Love of One's Neighbour with David Kossoff as Ziffel and Peter Sallis as Kalle
Narrator, Malcolm Hayes
The third of four programmes of extracts from Brecht's posthumous collection of dialogues between two German refugees
Louis Kentner (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader.Paul Beard
Conducted by Izier Solomon PART 1
Second of two talks by Kathleen Nott
In this talk Mrs. Nott considers Dr. P. R. Leavis 's moral assessment of Lawrence.
PART 2
by Sir Jack Westrup, Heather Professor of Music in the University of Oxford
It is well known that No. 11 of the Enigma Variations, G.R.S., was inspired by G. R. Sinclair's bulldog.
Elgar wrote various themes inspired by or dedicated to Dan, and Sir Jack Westrup relates these to their sometimes surprising contexts in his compositions.
(BBC recording: second broadcast)
Grayston Burgess (counter-tenor)
Geoffrey Mitchell (counter-tenor)
John Whitworth (counter-tenor)
Edgar Fleet (tenor)
Ian Partridge (tenor) with ensemble of medieval instruments conducted by Bruno Turner
Anon., early 13th century
The Song of the Ass (Orientis partibus)
Regis vasa
Anon., mid 13th century
In seculum artifex-In seculura supra-In seculum
In seculum viellatoris
Quant vol-Virgo-Haec dies
Pucelete-je languis-Domino
Anon., late 13th century
Mariae assumptio-Hulus chorl Salve virgo-Omnes
Virginale decus—Descendi—Alm
Anon., early 14th century
Detractor est-Qui secuntur-
Verbum iniquum
Anon., mid 13th century
La quinte estampie real
From the church of St. George-the Martyr, Queen Square, London