London Harpsichord Ensemble

Readings from his poetry chosen and introduced by Herbert Read to illustrate the poet's philosophy
Reader, Martin Starkie
(The recorded broadcast of Sept. 10)
Humphry House on Tennyson: Oct. 15

Act 3

Handel: Cantata
Dalla guerra amoroso
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Edith Picht-Axenfeld (harpsichord continuo)
Irmgard Poppen (cello continuo)
Bach: Cantata No. 211
Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht (Coffee Cantata)
Lisa Otto (soprano) Josef Traxel (tenor)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Karlheinz Zoller (flute) Strings of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Heinz Friedrich Hartig (harpsichord continuo)
Irmgard Poppen (cello continuo) Conducted by Karl Forster on gramophone records

Part 2 cello, NELSON COOKE

Peter Pears (tenor)
Julian Bream (lute and guitar)

Idil Biret piano
Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic
Orchestra
Leader,
Peter Mountain
CONDUCTOR
John Pritchard
Part 1
De l'aube à midi sur la mer Jeux de vagues
Dialogue du vent et de la mer

David Gascoyne chooses and introduces a number of poems
Read by Hallam Fordham

Walter Gieseking (piano)
Preludes, Book 1
Danseuses de Delphes; Voiles; Le vent dans la plaine; Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir; Les collines d'Anacapri; Des pas sur la neige; Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest; La fille aux cheveux de lin; La sérénade interrompue: La cathédrale engloutie; La danse de Puck; Minstrels
On gramophone records

Talk by Philip Spencer
Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge

John Holloway reviews ' The Open Society and Its Enemies,' by K. R. Popper

or The Persians are Coming
Talk by Christopher Hollis, M.P.

Serenade, Op. 24
Marsch; Menuett; Variationen: Sonnet Nr. 217 von Petrarca; Tanzscene; Lied (ohne Worte); Finale: Im Marschtempo des ersten Satzes
Virtuoso Chamber Ensemble:
Sidney Fell (clarinet)
Wilfred Hambleton (bass clarinet)
David Martin (violin)
Gwynne Edwards (viola)
Willem de Mont (cello) with Hugo D'Alton (mandolin)
Julian Bream (guitar)
Thomas Hemsley (baritone)
Conducted by Ren6 Leibowitz
This performance has been arranged in collaboration with the Music Section of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. The programme is the second of three in which chamber works by Schoenberg are being played.

by Robert Simpson
A present-day composer's reflections
(: second broadcast)

HARRY DANKS (viola)
Maurice Gendron (cello)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire Conductor. Antat Derati
From the Town Hall, Leeds in association with the City of Leeds Music Committee
Part 1

Ceinwen Rowlands (soprano)
Maria Sandra (mezzo-soprano)
Lily Kettlewell (contralto)
William Herbert (tenor) Norman Lumsden (bass)
London Chamber Singers
Continuo:
John Shinebourne (cello)
Frederick Stone (harpsichord)
London Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Andrew Cooper )
Conductor, Anthony Bernard

String Quartet No. 1 (1812)
String Quartet No. 11. in E (1817) played by the Lyra String Quartet:
Granville Casey , John Crossan
John Linn , John Mclnulty
First of a series of programmes including all Schubert's string quartets

Symphony No. 7, in E
Allegro moderato; Adagio;
Scherzo: Finale played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Otto Klemperer