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Sonata in F for two violins. cello, and continuo played by the Ars Redivlva Ensemble on gramophone records
Talk by Peter de Mendelssohn on some German war diaries
Harry Danks (viola)
Clifton Helliwell (piano)
Ilona Kabos (piano)
London String Trio:
Maria Lidka (violin)
Watson Forbes (viola) Vivian Joseph (cello)
Paul Creston was born in New York in 1906. His Symphony No. I was awarded the first prize at the Critics' Guild Festival in New York in 1943. His compositions also include a Concertino for double string orchestra, and a Poem for harp and orchestra, both of which have been played in London.
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Under the name of Ralph Wood ,
R. W. Wood is well known as a writer on music. A Londoner, born in 1902, he has written a symphony, a piano concerto, two string quartets, and a string trio, performed last year at a concert of the London Contemporary Music Centre.
Alun Hoddinott is a young Welsh composer, born at Bargoed, Glamorgan, in 1929. He is a student at Cardiff University, plays the violin, and has written a number of chamber and orchestral works. His String Trio, completed last December, was first broadcast in a concert of his music in the Welsh Home Service six months ago. Harold Rutland
reads and comments on three of his recent poems
' The Hunter's Bride'
A romantic opera
In three acts and five scenes
Libretto by Friedrich Kind
English version by Edward J. Dent
Music by Weber (spoken by Stanley Groome) (spoken by Malcolm Fitzpatrick)
(Continued in next column) (spoken by Alastair Duncan) (spoken by Joan Hart)
Other speaking parts taken by Alison Reid ,
Esmé Smith George Stearn Scott , Ronald Sidney
BBC Opera Chorus
(Trained by Alan G. Melville )
BBC Opera Orchestra (Leader, John Sharpe )
Conductor. Stanford Robinson
Repetiteur, Leo Wurmser Producer, Dennis Arundell
The scene is laid in the Bohemian Forest, about the year 1650
Act 1
An open space in the forest. In front of a tavern
Roger Wilson , head of the Department of Social Studies, University College of Hull, gives the last of three talks on the tradition of social service in a changed society
Act 2
Scene 1: A room in the ranger's lodge Scene 2: The Wolf's Glen
Hugh Scrutton discusses popular taste in the arts, as illustrated in this exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery
Act 3
Scene 1: A glade in the forest
Scene 2: Agnes' room in the lodge
Scene 3: A romantic landscape in the forest
Marr or Marx?
A talk by W. K. Matthews , Professor of Russian in the University of London, on the recent controversy in the Soviet Union about linguistics
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String Quintet in A, Op. 18 played by the Martin String Quartet:
David Martin (violin)
Neville Marriner (violin)
Eileen Grainger (viola)
Bernard Richards (cello)
Stephen Shingles (viola)
