Music drama in three acts by Wagner
Covent Garden Opera Orchestra
(Leader, Joseph Shadwick )
Conductor, Karl Rankl
From the Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden
Act 1
The interior of Hunding's hut
Patricia Hutchins talks about the present exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts
Act 2
A wild rocky place
Talk by Graham Hutton
The few surviving Saxon churches saw the beginnings of our English society. The speaker, who has recently made a tour of the finest of them, considers their bearing on our social and economic history.
Act 3
On the top of a rocky mountain
'Maud'
A monodrama
A selection for radio made by Lord David Cecil with music specially composed by John Hotchkis
Reader, Marius Goring
Production by Frank Hauser
Quintet in D (K.593) played by the Hungarian String Quartet
Frederick Riddle (viola)
Fourth of five programmes
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