2-Donse macabre by Saint-Saens
Gramophone records presented by Lionel Salter
A talk by Pierre Bourdan , who has just returned from a visjt to Egypt
Part 1
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
String Orchestra
Conducted by Arnold Goldsbrough
(first performance)
A talk by Margaret Whinney , lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art. (This year marks the three hundredth anniversary of Gibbons's birth)
Part 2
Italian Cantata: Aminta e Fillide by Handel
Thurston Dart (harpsichord)
String Orchestra
Conducted by Arnold Goldsbrough
* Aminta e FiIlide' is to be repeated on Thursday at 6.20
Talk by Arland Ussher on Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche
A poetic play about 1916 by Robert Farren
Produced in Dublin by the author
This play was commissioned by the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and first performed there in 1943, during the 1916 Commemoration. The scene is a house in the southern suburbs of Dublin, late in Easter Week, 1916
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
Hans Hotter (bass)
Choir of the Lucerne Festival
(Trained by Albert Jenny )
Orchestra of the Lucerne Festival
Conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler