Quintet in C, Op. 29 played by the Aleph String Quartet:
Alan Loveday (violin)
Reginald Morley (violin)
Max Gilbert (viola)
Harvey Phillips (cello)
Kenneth Essex (viola)
A masque by John Milton and Henry Lawes
As first presented at Ludlow Castle on Michaelmas Day, 1634
Edited and produced by Douglas Cleverdon
The songs of the Attendant Spirit and the Lady transcribed from the original MSS of Henry Lawes : sung by Rene Soames and Elsie Suddaby
Music composed and arranged by Elizabeth Poston played by the London Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Andrew Cooper )
Conductor, Anthony Bernard
Opera in three acts
Libretto by Gabriela Preissova
English version by Vida Harford
Music by Janacek
BBC Opera Chorus
(Trained by Alan G. Melville )
BBC Opera Orchestra (Leader, John Sharpe )
Conducted by Rafael Kubelik
Repetiteur, Vida Harford
Scene: A mountain village in Moravia at the end of the nineteenth century
Act 1
In front of a small mill. Evening
Japan's Reaction to Western Culture by Sir George Sansom
Act 2
The living-room of Mother Buryja 's cottage. Six months later
Talk by Herbert Butterfield , Professor of Modem History in the University of Cambridge
'Since we overthrew the traditions of a more technical diplomacy the situation has justified the maxims of the scence we despised.' Professor Butterfield pieads for a return to scientific diplomacy.
Act 3
The living-room of Mother Buryja'a cottage. Two months later
(Edmund Donlevy and Arnold Matters broadcast by permission of the Governors of Sadler's Wells; Rafael Kube'ik broadcasts by permission of HaroM Holt, Ltd.)
by the Very Rev.
Canon J. P. Arendzen , D.D.
' The Lotos-Eaters' and ' Ulysses'
Read by Sir Ralph Richardson
Production by Frank Hauser
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Prelude: Fugue: Forlane:
Rigaudon: Menuet; Toccata played by Phyllis Sellick (piano)