Myra Verney (soprano)
Ernest Lush (accompanist)
Henriette Canter (violin)
Frank Laffitte (piano)
An allegorical play by August Strindberg in a new translation by Peter Watts with music specially composed by John Hotchkis and played by the BBC Midland Light Orchestra
(Leader, Frank Thomas ) Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
(Continued in next column)
Others taking part:
Eric Anderson. Franklyn Bellamy
Gabrielle Blunt , Denise Bryer
John Carol , Roger Delgado
Hamilton Dyce , Percy Edwards
Stanley Groome , Joan Hart
Paul Hardwick , Robert Hardy
Malcolm Hayes , Richard Hurndall
Anthony Jacobs , David Kossoff , Preston Lockwood , Eric Lugg , Nancy Nevinson , Elsa Palmer , Molly Rankin , William Trent
John Turnbull
Adapted for radio and produced by Peter Watts
Songs by the Sea, Gösta Nystroem
Among the islets; Nocturne; Song of the sea; I have a home by the sea; I am waiting for the moon
Aulikki Rautawaara (soprano)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Tor Mann
21.15 app. Symphony No. 3 (The Four Ages of Life), Hilding Rosenberg
Radiotjänst Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Tor Mann
(Recordings made available by courtesy of Radiotjänst, Sweden)
Gösta Nystroem and Hilding Rosenberg are both among the leading Swedish composers of today. Nystroem, who was born at Silvberg in 1890, studied in Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Paris. His works include four symphonies, a ballet, a concerto each for viola and cello, and a good deal of dramatic music written for the theatre in Gothenburg. He has a great love of the sea and dedicated his Sinfonia del Mare to all sailors of the seven seas.
Rosenberg, who was born in 1892 in the south of Sweden, went to Stockholm when he was twenty and made friends with Wilhelm Stenhammar, a prominent Swedish composer; he also found inspiration in the music of Sibelius. Later, in Dresden and Paris, he came under the influence of Schoenberg and Stravinsky. Since then however he has forged out a style of his own marked by breadth, vitality, and a sense of mysticism. His Third Symphony, dating from 1939, has the title 'Four Ages of Life' and derives its inspiration from Romain Rolland's novel Jean Christophe.
Harold Rutland
Talk by C. E. Carrington , who has made a special study of the rites and ceremonies of kingsihdp
Cambridge University
Madrigal Society
Conductor, Boris Ord
Valda Aveling (clavichord)
(Continued in next column)
Sonata No. 2, in D played by James Whitehead (viola da gamba) Arnold Golidsbrough (harpsichord)
The Spirit of the European Romantic Movement
Talk by H. G. Schenk
For some time Dr. Schenk. who is Lecturer in European Economic and Social History in the University of Oxford, has boen engaged in a study of European romanticism. He discusses the scope of his work and the problems that confront him.
