by Dal Stivens
An extravagant story in the Australian folklore tradition, read by John Bushelle
Quartet No. 14; Quartet No. 15
String Octet
(This work, which is being given its first broadcast performance, is so devised that it can be played either as two quartets or as a string octet)
Martin String Quartet:
David Martin (violin)
Neville Marriner (violin) Eileen Grainger (viola) Bernard Richards (cello)
Aleph String Quartet:
Alan Loveday (violin)
Reginald Morley (violin)
Max Gilbert (viola)
Harvey Phillips (cello)
In his ' Music Diary' Harold Rutland describes how this work came to be written
by L. Rosenfeld ,
Professor of Theoretical Physics in the University of Manchester
The speaker discusses Einstein's general views on the fundamental concepts of physics and points out that Einstein has been struggling with a dilemma that he has not been able to resolve. Professor Rosenfeld outlines the solution of the problem resulting from the ideas of Niels Bohr.
Opera in four acts
Libretto by. Nicolas Francois Guillard
Music by Gluck
Act 1
Outside the temple of Diana
Act 2
A prison chamber, near the temple
Henry Green talks about the novelist's use of conversation as a narrative device
(The recorded broadcast of Oct. 11)
Act 3
Iphigenia's apartment
Act 4
Inside the temple of Diana
A W. B. Yeats Miscellany
Some of Yeats' contemporaries talk about his practice of words as seen in relation to poetry and music
Drawn from recordings made by Oliver St. John Gogarty Frank O'Connor , Cecil Salkeld
Brinsley Macnamara , Austen Clark
Arthur Duff , Mrs. Yeats Mrs. Higgina , Iseult Stuart
Anne Yeats , John Stephenson and Miss Macnie
Narrator, Duncan Mclntyre
Edited and produced by W. R. Rodgers
Helen Pyke and Paul Hamburger
(piano duet)
Fantasia In F minor (K.508)... Mozart Fantasia in F minor, Op. 103.Sc/iubert
Talk by Ralph Vaughan Williams
(The recorded broadcast of July 28)
