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JOHN BETJEMAN introduces the third in a series of eleven weekly programmes King's College, Cambridge
CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE
Director of Music, DAVID WILLCOCKS
ANDREW DAVIS (organ)
Choir:
A request programme of records
played by VALERIE TRYON
Allegro de concert
Two Nocturnes, Op. 37
Rondo in C major
Souvenir de
Paganini Polonaise in E flat minor
Bolero
Seventh In a weekly series
gramophone records
Opera in three acts
Libretto by JEAN COCTEAU Music by Milhaud
English translation by David Harris
Cast in order of singing:
MEMBERS OF THE
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA Leader, Colin Staveley
Conductor, JOHN CAREWE
Produced by DOUGLAS CRAIG
ALEXANDER KORNEYEV (flute)
ALBERT ZAYONTZ (oboe)
VLADIMIR TUPIKIN (clarinet) BORIS AFANASEV (horn)
VLADIMIR VLASENKO (bassoon)
by GÉRARD SOUZAY (baritone) DALTON BALDWIN (piano)
From the Freemasons' Hall Edinburgh Part 1
DARIUS MILHAUD recalls the early days of 'Les Six' (the group of composers, including Poulenc) and talks about the artistic climate of the twenties.
Previously broadcast in 1962
Part 2
Aurore; Après un rfive; Eau vivante; Prison; Toujours
Fauré
String Quartet in F major
Romanus Hofstetter
Recording made available by courtesy of Czechoslovak Radio
An opera in four acts
Libretto by LUIGI ILLICA based on The Vulture-Maiden by WILHELMINE VON HILLERN
Music by Alfredo Catalani
First broadcast in this country
Cast in order of singing:
Huntsmen, peasants, shepherds, villagers ROME CHORUS AND
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF THE ITALIAN RADIO
Chorus-Master.
Nino Antonellini
Conducted by ARTURO BASILE
Recording made available by courtesy of Italian Radio
The action takes place in the Oetz valley in the Austrian Tyrol, about 1800
ACT 1
The village square at Hochstofl
ACT 2
The village square at Solden
Four talks on the impact of painting on English poetry in the mid-nineteenth century
4: Robert Browning by PHILIP DREW
Mr. Drew outlines Browning's concept of the relationship between the poet and the practitioners of the other arts. He suggests some interesting differences in approach between the Browning of Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day and modern aesthetic critics. f Second broadcast
ACT 3
Wally's house by the ravine at Hochstoff
ACT 4
The Murzoll
James Reeves introduces and reads a selection of his own poems with IAN HOLM followed by an interlude at 7 55
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Herbert von Karajan
From the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Part 1: Mozart
Divertimento No. 15, in B flat major (K.287)
Reflections and reminiscences f 5: The Coming of Subsidised Theatre
The last of five talks in which Basil Dean remembers the past and discusses the present state of the theatre
Part 2: Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4, in F minor
A reflection for radio by Frederick Bradnum
Music specially composed by Humphrey Searle with THE SINFONIA OF LONDON conducted by THE composer
In this dramatic poem the author describes a period of self-chosen exile. Through the progress of the seasons his own emotions and personality change and develop.
Produced by TERENCE TILLER
Second broadcast
Piano Trio (1904)
NEW AMSTERDAM TRIO
John Pintavalle (violin) Heinrich Joachim (cello) Edith Mocsanyi (piano) gramophone record
