Quartet No. 4 played by the Martin String Quartet:
David Martin (violin)
Neville Marriner (violin)
Eileen Grainger (viola)
Bernard Richards (cello)
John Guest tells a story about the Algarve province of Portugal
Lyrical comedy in three acts
(after 'The Merry Wives of Windsor')
Libretto by Arrigo Boito
English translation by Humphrey Procter -Gregg
Music by Verdi
Cast in order of singing:
(Continued in next column)
Burghers and street folk
Ford's servants maskers as elves, fairies, witches
BBC Opera Chorus
(Trained by John Clements )
BBC Opera Orchestra (Led by John Sharpe )
Conductor, Stanford Robinson
Presented by Mark Lubbock
Narrator, Andrew Cruickshank
Act 1
Scene 1: Interior of ' The Garter Inn '
Scene 2: A garden
A talk by A. H. Basson on Logical Machines
Act 2
Scene 1: Interior of ' The Garter Inn '
Scene 2: A room in Ford's house
Humphry House reviews the recent book by Professor Basil Willey , ' Nineteenth Century Studies'
Act 3
Scene 1: Outside ' The Garter Inn '
Scene 2: Windsor Park
Empiricist and Democrat by Bertrand Russell
First of four talks on the fourteenth-century Franciscan philosopher
Concerto in the Italian style
Sonata No. 1, in G, for cello and harpsichord played by Pierre Fournler (cello)
Aimée van de Wiele (harpsichord)
First of three recitals
reads a selection of his own poetry
Fantasy in C, Op. 17 played by Backhaus (piano) on gramophone records
