A radio version of his life and ideas, written for the Third Programme by Clifford Bax
With Leon Quartermaine as Prince Gotama, the Buddha
Music composed by Edmund Rubbra
Produced by Mary Hope Allen
Play introduced by Clifford Bax on page 5
(' The Seraglio')
Libretto after C. F. Bretzner
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(Full performance In German recorded in Hamburg by the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk)
Cast in order of singing
N.W.D.R. Symphony Orchestra
Conductor, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
The action takes place in Turkey in the palace of the Pasha Selim
Overture and Act 1
by Wyndham Lewis
The fifth talk In a series in which writers, a painter, and a musician speak about the book or picture which produced a crisis in their lives
Act 2
Act 3
The first of two talks by Claude Bourdet , Editor of the French political weekly Octobre
Four Serious Songs, Op. 121 sung by Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
Accompanied by Phyllis Spurr
Marjorie Avis (soprano), Joan Gray (contralto), Eric Greene (tenor), Robert Irwin (baritone), Cantata Section of the Bach Choir, the Jacques Orchestra, Harry Stubbs (organ), Thornton Lofthouse (harpsichord). Conductor, Reginald Jacques