Harold Child (baritone)
Ernest Lush (accompanist) Amadeus String Quartet:
Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin)
Peter Schidlot (viola) Martin Lovett (cello
A New Judgment by Christopher Sykes
Production by Douglas Cleverdon
Opera in three acts
Libretto by Arturo Colauttt
(after Sardou)
Music by Giordano
Chorus and Symphony Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Turin .
(Chorus-Master, Bruno Ermlnero )
Conductor, Mario Rossi
Time: Late nineteenth century
Act 1
St. Petersburg: An elegant apartment in the house of Count Vladimir Andrejevicii
Goethe and the Faust Tradition
Talk by E. M. Butler , Schröder Professor .of German in the University of Cambridge
Act 2
Paris: A reception at the house of Princess Fedora Romazov
Talk by H. 0. J. Collier , Ph.D., with extracts from the correspondence between Manson and Ross read by Duncan Mclntyre
Dr. Collier builds up the story of the investigation into the cause of malaria from the letters that passed between Patrick Manson and Ronald Ross during their collaboration. During this time they worked thousands of miles apart, Manson being a London specialist in tropical diseases and Rosi a member of the Indian Medical Service.
Act 3
Switzerland: The garden of Fedora's villa in the Bernese Oberiand
Short story by William Sansom
Read by Leonard Sachs
William Pleeth (cello) Margaret Good (piano)
Joseph Weingarten (piano)
Introduction and Polonaise, for cello and piano, Op. 3
Impromptu in G flat. Op. 51
Two Nocturnes: E minor. Op. 72; C minor, Op. 48 No. 1
Study in A fiat, Op. 10 No. 10
Sonata in G minor, for cello and piano, Op. 65
(The Items for solo piano are recorded)
Tenth of a series of programme* ot music by Chopin