by Georg Biichner
Translated by GORONWY REES Music by HUMPHREY SEARLE
Paul Scofield reads Buchner's poetic and clinical narrative describing how the poet and playwright JAKOB MICHAEL REINHOLD LENZ (1751-1792), contemporary of Goethe, was gradually engulfed by madness while staying with a kindly pastor in the Vosges Music played by a section of Sinfonia of London conducted by the composer Production by H. B. FORTUIN Third broadcast