Suite No. 3, in C
(arr. Boreggi) played by the ' In cimbalis bene sonantibus '
String Orchestra
Conducted by Maestro Antonelli on gramophone records
Adapted for broadcasting, with a linking commentary in verse by Terence Tiller
Music composed and arranged by Elizabeth Poston
Production by Douglas Cleverdon
The Gloria sung by Alfred Deller
(counter-tenor)
The Shepherd's Song sung by Stanley Riley (bass)
Martin Boddey (tenor) and a boy soprano
This play, which dates from the early fifteenth century, forms part «f the famous Towneley MS. It is one of two ' Shepherd's Plays ' known to have been performed by the Wakefield guilds. Though it is strictry a Nativity play, its plot is almost entirely concerned with a comic sheep-stealing episode that has little to do with the larger theme
Six Sonatas:
No. 433. in F; No. 205. in C: No. 257. in E; No. 413, in D minor; No. 23, in E; No. 419, in F played by Sylvia Marlowe (harpsichord)
A reminiscence of Ontario thirty years ago, by Arthur Phelps, Professor of English at McGill University, Montreal
An opera in four acts
Libretto founded on Shakespeare by Arrigo Boito
Music by Verdi
Milan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
(The artists will be announced)
Act 1: Outside the castle
Act 2: A hall of the castle
Act 3: The great hall of the castle
Act 4: The bedroom of Desdemona
From La Scala Opera House, Milan
Prose readings in interludes between programmes this week are descriptions of characters from eighteenth-century novels, selected by Joyce Lindsay
