selected, described, and sung by Engel Lund with Ferdinand Rauter at the piano
2-Dances and Singing Games
Talk by Lady Violet Bonham Carter
Paolo Borciani (violin)
Elisa Pegreffi (viola)
Piero Farulli (viola)
Franco Rossi (cello)
The Verdi Quartet will be repeated tomorrow in another broadcast by the New Italian Quartet
A poem in twelve books by John Milton
Book 2
Music by Elizabeth Poston
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
Music drama in one act by Richard Strauss
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
(Sung in German)
Chorus of men servants and maid servants
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Leader. Oscar Lampe )
Conductor,
Sir Thomas Beecham, Bt.
Opera repetiteur. Leo Wurmser
The action takes place at Mycenae In mythical times
Scene : The inner court of the Palace of Aegisthus
by Alan Pryce Jones