Joan Cross (soprano)
Anne Wood (contralto) Frederick Stone (piano)
Helen Pyke and Paul Hamburger
(piano duet)

An allegorical play by August Strindberg in a new translation by Peter Watts

BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Constant Lambert
Part 1
The music of Alberic Magnard is a true expression of his own character, deeply serious, almost stern. Born in Paris in 1865, he studied for a time with Massenet but soon turned to Vincent d'Indy, whose ideals he found far more sympathetic. In September 1914 he fired on the invading Germans from the window of his house at Baron, Oise; they retaliated by killing him and burning the house. His Third Symphony, written in 1896, was first performed in Paris in 1906, and in this country in 1936, when it was conducted by Constant Lambert. H.R.

by Anthony Barnett
The speaker discusses some of the problems of behaviour dealt with by Dr. Hediger in his book Wild Animals in Captivity and relates the study of animals kept in zoological gardens to the more conventional scientific research on behaviour.

Adam Zero, produced at Covent Garden in 1946, has for its subject the life of an average man, seen as though it were taking place as a ballet. The words ' All' the world's a stage * are indeed quoted at the head of the second movement. Adam is born, falls in love, marries, and achieves power and distinction. But in the end he is stripped of his glory and a new generation (the Understudy) arrives to take his place. The Stage Director works out on a blackboard the sum of Adam's life; and it adds up to zero. Harold Rutland

Illustrated talk by Kirsten Flagstad

A selection of his poetry

Quartet in B flat (K.458) played by the Aleph String Quartet