Requiem Op. 9
HELENE BOUVIER (mezzo-soprano)
Xavier DUPRAZ (bass)
CAILLARD and CAILLAT CHOIRS
LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER on a gramophone record

6: Meister Eckhart by R. W. SOUTHERN
Chichele Professor of Modern History,
University of Oxford
Eckhart was the first academic thinker to speak to the lay public of the late mediaeval towns. He foreshadowed some of the religious movements of modern times.
Second broadcast

A piece for radio by GERARD McLARNON with Eleanor Summerfield and Marjorie Westbury
Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
Second broadcast

Piano Sonatas played by ANDOR FOLDES
Sonata in F minor. Op. 2 No. I
8.20* Sonata in E flat major.
Op. 7
8.4H' Sonata in A major.
Op. 101

John Roberts gives his last commentary on current affairs in this fortnightly series

BENTHIEN QUARTET
Ulrich Benthien (violin)
Rudolf Maria Muller (violin) Martin Ledig (viola)
Wolfram Hentschel (cello)

DEBEN BHATTACHARYA discusses the Persian tradition of classical instrumental music and introduces some recordings he made in Teheran
Although the dastgah system is based on modal schemes, unlike the Arab maqam or the Indian riUa. it is less strict about scale pattern. followed by an Interlude at 10.56