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(Second series. No. 5)
' The Duchess at Sunset '
Written for broadcasting by Pamela Hansford Johnson
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall
Music for piano composed and played by Arthur Oldham
(For cast see Wednesday at 9 40)
The date is 1941. The characters from Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu are imagined to be still in their heyday

Contributors

Broadcasting By:
Pamela Hansford Johnson
Produced By:
Rayner Heppenstall
Played By:
Arthur Oldham

Concertino for piano, strings, and wind instruments
Rudolf Firkusny (piano) Jacques Gordon (violin)
Urico Rossi (violin)
David Dawson (viola) Clark Brody (clarinet) David Weber (clarinet)
John Barrows (horn)
Harold Goltzer (bassoon) on gramophone records

Contributors

Piano:
Rudolf Firkusny
Violin:
Jacques Gordon
Violin:
Urico Rossi
Viola:
David Dawson
Clarinet:
Clark Brody
Clarinet:
David Weber
Horn:
John Barrows
Bassoon:
Harold Goltzer

Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
Music by Mozart
Cast, in order of singing
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
John Pritchard (harpsichord)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, David McCallum )
Conducted by Vittorio Gui
Production by Carl Ebert
The action takes place at Naples in a coffee house, in and around the villa of the two sisters, and in Don Alfonso 's villa
Act 1

Contributors

Harpsichord:
John Pritchard
Leader:
David McCallum
Conducted By:
Vittorio Gui
Production By:
Carl Ebert
Unknown:
Don Alfonso
Ferrando an officer, in love with Dorabella:
Petre Munteanu
Gugllelmo an officer, in love withFlordiligi:
Erich Kunz
Don Alfonso, an elderly philosopher:
Mariano Stabile
Sisters (ladies of Ferrara): Flordiligi:
Suzanne Danco
Dorabella:
Eugenia Zareska
Despina, their waiting-maid:
Hilde Gueden

A Literary Eclogue in Two Parts by. Lord Byron
Produced by Patric Dickinson

Contributors

Produced By:
Patric Dickinson
Tracy:
Christopher Hassall
Inkel:
Frith Banbury
Sir Richard Bluebottle:
V. C. Clinton-Baddeley
Botherby:
Cecil Bellamy
Lady Bluebottle:
Kelty MacLeod
Miss Lilac:
Kelty MacLeod
Lady Bluemount:
Susan Richmond
Scamp:
Robert Sewell

Third Programme

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