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MUSIC AND MOVEMENT ii, by Marjorie Eele
To be repeated tomorrow at 9.45 a.m.
11.20 CURRENT AFFAIRS
11.40 FRENCH FOR SIXTH FORMS. ' Le Docteur Knock ou le Triomphe de la Médecine' par Jules Romains (deuxieme partie). Extraits du troisieme acte enregistres dans les studios de l'UNESCO a Paris avec le concours des comédiens de la compagnie Jean Mercure.

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Unknown:
Marjorie Eele
Unknown:
Jules Romains
Unknown:
Jean Mercure.

Eleanor Houston (soprano)
Jess Walters (baritone)
Harry Danks (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Sir John Barbirolli
In 1902, at the height of his powers, Delius wrote a one-act opera, to a French libretto, for a competition; but the work was neither performed nor published. Thirty years later Delius' thoughts turned again to the opera; and though he was blind and paralysed, with the help of Eric Fenby (to whom Delius dictated his last works) he adapted parts of it to words by Whitman beginning: ' Once I passed through a populous city.' The work that resulted was an extended and impassioned love duet; it was given the title of Idyll and performed for the first time at a Promenade Concert in 1933. Berlioz said that in his ' symphony in four movements with viola solo he had woven round the solo part a series of scenes drawn from his memories of wanderings in the Abruzzi. The association with Childe Harold's Pilgrimage arose because there seemed to be about the whole symphony ' a poetic melancholy worthy of Byron's hero.' The titles of the movements are: Harold in the Mountains-Scenes of melancholy, happiness, and joy; March of the Pilgrims singing the evening prayer; Serenade of an Abruzzi mountain-dweller to his mistress; Orgy of brigands -Reminiscences of previous scenes.
Harold Rutland

Contributors

Soprano:
Eleanor Houston
Baritone:
Jess Walters
Viola:
Harry Danks
Conducted By:
Sir John Barbirolli
Unknown:
Eric Fenby

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