The Basil Lam
Sonata Ensemble:
Richard Adeney (flute) Jorgen Lauland (violin) Patrick Halling (violin)
Terence Weil (cello)
Basil Lam (harpsichord) Last of a series of six programmes of trio sonatas
The Artist in the Twenties by Alan Pryce-Jones
(The recorded broadcast of Feb. 8)
Fourth of a series of seven talks
Opera in three acts
Music by Michael William Balfe
Special arrangement by Sir Thomas Beecham , Bt.
Libretto by Alfred Bunn adapted by Dennis Arundell
(who writes in this issue)
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson)
Covent Garden Opera Orchestra
(Leader, Thomas Matthews)
Conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham. Bt.
Producer. Dennis Arundell
From the Royal Opera House. Covent Garden
Scene: Presburg and its neighbourhood in the eighteenth century
Act
Count Arnheim's castle on the Danube
7.45 app. Interval
8.0 app. Act 2
(Twelve years later)
Sc. 1: The Gypsy encampment
Sc. 2: In the Gypsy Queen's tent Se. 3: A fair in the public square Sc. 4: The Hall of Justice
8.55 app. Interval
9.10 app. Act 3
Sc. 1: Arline's boudoir
Sc. 2: A hall in the Count's castle
1. F. T. Plucknett , Professor of Legal
History, London University, reviews the new volume in the Oxford History of England by A. L. Poole , President of St. John's College. Oxford
Denis Matthews (piano)
Six Bagatelles, Op. 126
Rondo in G, Op. 51 No. 2
or The Schoolfellows
A poem by William Allingham
Read by Sir Arthur Grimble
Images :
Gigues Iberia
Par les rues et par les chemins; Les parfums de la nuit; Le matin d'un jour de file
Rondee de printemps played by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Conducted by Ernest Ansermet on gramophone records
by Pierre Frédérix