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Directed by Louis COHEN
Relayed from
The Valley Gardens, Harrogate
The plot of The Italian in Algiers, like the plots of nine out of ten comic operas, is based on that good old formula, the ' eternal quadrangle'. (The ' triangle ' is strictly reserved for tragedies.) Mustafa, Bey of Algiers, is infatuated with a beautiful Italian captive, Isabella. He already has a wife, Elvira, and, being apparently non-polygamous, proposes to get rid of her by giving her to another Italian captive, Lindoro. As Lindoro and Isabella are lovers, and Elvira is devoted to her husband, Mustafa's bright idea is satisfactory to no one but himself.

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Directed By:
Louis Cohen

A Secret Service Serial by SYDNEY
HORLER
Radio adaptation by HOLT MARVELL With music arranged and conducted by WALFORD HYDEN. Produced by A. W. HANSON
Episode 3 : BUDAPEST The players include:
NORMAN SHELLEY as ' Tiger '
Standish GRETA KELLER as ' 'Rozi'
ADRIAN THOMAS
JOHN CHEATLE
ROBERT G. RENDEL
J. LESLIE FRITH
Scene : The Cafe Palota, Budapest

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Unknown:
Holt Marvell
Conducted By:
Walford Hyden.
Produced By:
A. W. Hanson
Unknown:
Norman Shelley
Unknown:
Standish Greta Keller
Unknown:
Adrian Thomas
Unknown:
John Cheatle
Unknown:
Robert G. Rendel
Unknown:
J. Leslie Frith

THE ENGLISH ENSEMBLE:
Marjorie Hayward (violin); Rebecca Clarke (viola); May Mukle (violoncello) ; Kathleen Long (pianoforte)
HERBERT HEYNER (baritone)
In none of Bax's chamber music is so much dramatic force and power condensed as in this remarkable quartet, composed in 1922. It takes only eight minutes to play, and yet a depth of intense feeling is compressed that might easily have sufficed for a whole symphony. The opening is marked feroce, which provides a good clue to the mood of the music. The work makes no concessions to lyrical charm and, indeed, never relaxes from the vigour with which it opens. Nor does it allow for any weakness on the part of its performers : for each individual, and for all four as a team, it is exacting both as regards technique and interpretation.

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Violin:
Marjorie Hayward
Violin:
Rebecca Clarke
Cello:
Kathleen Long
Baritone:
Herbert Heyner

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National Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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