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From the Royal Albert Hall, London
(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
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
Talk by Dr. Edwin Hubble , Chairman of the Research Committee of the Mount Wilson and Mount Palomar Observatories
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
Talk by Philip Comyns Carr
A Literary Eclogue in Two Parts by. Lord Byron
Produced by Patric Dickinson
Suzanne Danco (soprano)
Frans Vroons (tenor)
Frederick Stone (piano)
Suleika (Was bedeutet die Bewegung) Heimliches Lieben Im Friihling
Des Fischers LlebesglUck Abendbilder Versunken
Gretchen (finished Britten) Ganymed