Jan van der Gucht (tenor)
Frederick Stone (accompanist)
Hurwitz String Quartet
A New Judgment by David Garnett
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
This New Judgment takes the form of an Imaginary Conversation between David Garnett and his grandfather, Richard Garnett. Each of them has edited the novels of T L Peacock. and each has expressed the critical view "of his generation on this most sparkling of nineteenth-century aatirists.
Opera in four acts
Libretto by Felice Romani
Music by Bellini
Cast in order of singing:
Druids, bards, priestesses, warriors, Gallic soldiers
Chorus and Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Rome
(Chorus-Master, Gaetano Riccitelli )
Conducted by Fernando Previtall
The action takes place in Gaul in the sacred grove and temple of Irminsul, in Roman times
Act 1
Goethe, the Great European
Talk by Stephen Spender
Act 2
A talk by Lord Beveridge on Gul-badan Begam-the daughter of Babur, Mogul conqueror of India -and Bibi , a Musulman lady who married an Englishman, William Augustus Brooke
Although these women lived in different centuries, Gul-badan Begam in the sixteenth century and Bibi Brooke in the eighteenth century, both are remarkable for their love of writing at a time when women in India had little opportunity for self-expression.
Act 3
Act 4
A new poem by C. Day Lewis
Part 1: ' Dialogue at the Airport'
Readers: Alan Wheatley
Leonard Sachs , Basil Taylor
The poem is the result of a recent visit to Rome and Florence. The first section, Dialogue at the Airport," is a conversation-piece in which the three sides of the poet's nature personified as Tom, Dick. and Harry discuss what they hope to find in Italy