('La Fin des Temps')
A radio-drama by Gabriel Marcel
(first broadcast by Radiodiffusion Franchise during the present year) English version by Rosalind Heywood and E. J. King Bull
Production by E. J. King Bull
Opera in four acts
Libretto by Nicolas Francois Guillard
Music by Gluck
BBC Chorus
(Chorus Master, Leslie Woodgate)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Leader, Max Salpeter)
Conducted by Roger Desormiere
Repetiteur, Leo Wurmser
Scene: Tauris in classical times
Act 1
Outside the temple of Diana
Act 2
A prison chamber near the temple
A series of seven talks
2-Loss of Speech by Macdonald Critchley, M.D., F.R.C.P.
As a contribution to this symposium on language determini m a neurologist talks about the thought processes of those people, deaf mutes and others, who lack the faculty of speech.
Act 3
Iphigenia's apartment
Act 4
Inside the temple of Diana
Another performance: Tuesday
See Harold Rutland 's Music Diary
Ellis Waterhouse, Director of the National Galleries of Scotland, talks about some of the pictures in the present exhibition at Burlington House
Fantasia Contrappuntistlca :
Chorale variation on Alleln Gott in der Hon sel Ehr played by Franz Osborn and Eric Harrison (two pianos)
Passages from ' The Task '
Read by David Lloyd James
Production by R. D. Smith
(The recorded broadcast of Dec. 15)
Sonata in E minor. Op. 88 played by Gregor Piatigorsky (cello) and Arthur Rubinstein (piano) on gramophone record*