Opera in a prologue and one act by Luigi Dalla. piccola based on 'La Torture par l'Espérance (Count Villiers de l'lsle-Adam) and ' La Légende d'Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak ' (Charles de Coster) and Chorus of Hessischer Rundfunk
(Chorus-Master.
Edmund von Michnay )
Orchestra of SUdwestfunk
Conducted by Hans Rosbaud
Scene: A dungeon in the State Prison at Saragossa. in the latter half of the sixteenth century)
(This recording of the broadcast on June 30, from a concert given during the I.S.C.M. Festival at Frankfurt-am-Main. has been made available by courtesy of Hessischer Rundfunk)
R. D. Gray , Assistant Lecturer in German at Cambridge University, reviews Thomas Mann 's novel Der Erwählte, recently published in Germany
(The recorded broadcast of July 3)
by James and Horace Smith
A selection introduced and read by W. J. White
Rejected Addresses is considered by many people to be the best book of parodies in rhe English language. It was published in 1812, to coincide with the re-opening of Drury Lane Theatre, and contains parodies of all the notable poets of the day.
. To be repeated Thursday
Images, Book 2:
Cloches a travers les feuilles
Et la lune descend: Poissons d'or played by Walter Gieseking (piano) on gramophone records
Talk by Charles A. Fisher , Senior Research Officer at the Institute of Colonial Studies, Oxford
After 1868 Japan, with deliberation, set out to make herself the Britain of the East. A geographer gives his views on the failure of this experiment and discusses the problems, more especially the pressure of population on natural resources, with which the country is now faced.
First of three talks. To be repeated on Wednesday. Next talk: July 29
A selection from the new translation of Vergil's poem made for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis
Production by Basil ""aylor
Book IV: ' Dido and Aeneas *
Persons:
Jean Austin Dobson (contralto)
John Wynton (tenor)
Norman Platt (baritone)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master. Leslie Woodgate )
Hubert Dawkes (organ)
The Goldsbrough Orchestra
(Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz )
Conductor, Arnold Goldsbrough
(Continued in next column)
Another performance: Wednesday
A reading of the story by James Hogg
This story is taken from Hogg's novel, published in 1824, ' The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a justified Sinner.' followed by an interlude at 10.35
Quartet No. 3, in F played by the Aeolian String Quartet:
Alfred Cave (violin)
Leonard Dight (violin) Watson Forbes (viola)
John Moore (cello)
(Recoraing of broadcast on June 3)
Churches and Public Buildings and the Neglect of the Common Man
Third of four talks by Nikclaus Pevsner.
Slade Professor of Fine Art in the University of Cambridge
Last talk: Wednesday
