IDA HAENDEL (violin)
RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, FRANKFURT conducted by ELIAHU INBAL
Part 1 Webern PassacaglU, Op 1; Symphony, Op 21
Debussy, arr and orch Allende-BMn La chute de la maison Usher (first broadcast in this country)
During the last ten years of his life Debussy worked fitfully on a scheme for an opera based on Edgar Allan Poe's short storv The Fall of the House of Usher. At his death in 1918 Debussy left only a collection of sketches. The composer Juan Allende-Blin has prepared this performing edition of these fragments. 3.20* Edgar Allan Poe in France
Harold Beaver, Reader in American Literature at the University of Warwick and editor of Penguin English Library editions of Poe, examines the peculiar attraction that the American author has had for the French, from Baudelaire, whotranslatedhim,upthrough
Verne and Valiry to the younger writers of today,
3.40. Webern. Brahms and a Debussy Premiere Part 2 Brahms
Violin Concerto in D
(Hess Radio recording)