Sandro Materassi (violin) Luigi Dallapiccola (piano)
The Duo Concertant is to be repeated on Saturday at 11.0
Why First Editions? by John Hayward
The speaker considers the importance for scholars and bibliophiles of books in their earliest edition, and comments on the place of first editions in the wide field of book collecting.
Second of four talks
Music drama in four scenes by Wagner
(Continued in next column)
Covent Garden Opera Orchestra
(Leader, Joseph Shadwick )
Conductor. Karl Rankl
From the Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden
The action takes place in legendary times
Scene 1: At the bottom of the Rhine
Scene 2: An open space on a mountain height
Scene 3: The subterranean caves of Nibelheim
Scene 4: An open space on a mountain height
Alec Robertson writes on page 5
' Die Walkiire ': Wednesday at 6.0
Talk by Sir James Gow Mann , P.S.A., Director of the Collection
On June 22, 1900, King Edward VII-then Prince of Wales-formally opened the Wallace Collection, the greatest single private bequest of works of art ever made to the nation. The speaker gives an account of the Collection's history, and of the four generations of the family who formed it.
Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
Elsie Suddaby (soprano)
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
George Rizza (counter-tenor)
A section of the South London Bach Society
(Conductor. Paul Steinitz )
Gareth Morris (flute)
Edward Walker (flute)
Maurice Clare (violin)
Ralph Downes (organ)
Introduced by Felix Aprahamian
From Psalm 119: Mirabilia testimonia tua
Kyrie for alternating plainchant and organ (Messe pour les Paroisses)
Troisieme legon de ténèbres pour Ie mercredi
Last of three programmes
E. L. Sukenik , Professor of Palestinian Archaeology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, introduces readings from his translation of two of the Hebrew scrolls discovered near Jericho in 1947 These works, hitherto unknown, he has called ' The War of the Children of Light and Darkness ' and ' The Scroll of Thanksgivings '
Reader. Laidman Browne
Quartet in A, Op. 18 No. 5 played by the Hurwitz String Quartet:
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin)
Granville Jones (violin)
Kenneth Essex t viola)
Terence Weil (cello)
Recent Developments in Soviet Policy in the Far East Talk by Max Beloff
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