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Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 for piano and strings played by The Griller String Quartet:
Sidney Griller (violin) Jack O'Brien (violin) Philip Burton (viola) Colin Hampton (cello) Myra Hess (piano)
Brahms' Piano Quintet, which Dame Myra Hess and the Griller String Quartet performed last night at the Edinburgh Festival, exists in three forms. Originally written as a string quintet with two cellos, it was adversely criticised by Joachim, and Brahms destroyed this version; the recent reconstruction of this form of the work by Sebastian Brown is sometimes performed. Brahms next arranged it for two pianot, and this version will be heard in the Third Programme on Friday. Finally, at Clara Schumann's suggestion, he redesigned the work as a piano quintet.
Deryck Cooke

Contributors

Violin:
Sidney Griller
Violin:
Jack O'Brien
Viola:
Philip Burton
Cello:
Colin Hampton
Piano:
Myra Hess
Unknown:
Dame Myra Hess
Unknown:
Sebastian Brown
Unknown:
Deryck Cooke

Opera in a prologue and one act by Luigi Dallapiccola based on ' La Torture par l'Espérance' (Count Villlers de l'lsle-Adam) and ' La Legende d'Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak ' (Charles de Coster)
Chorus and Symphony Orchestra of the Flemish Department of the Belgian Broadcasting Organisation
(Chorus-Master, Jan van Bouwel )
Conducted by Leonce Gras
Scene: A dungeon In the State Prison at Saragossa in the latter half of the sixteenth century

Contributors

Unknown:
Luigi Dallapiccola
Chorus-Master:
Jan van Bouwel
Conducted By:
Leonce Gras
The Mother:
Mariette Martin-Metten
The Prisoner:
Maurits Vercammen
The Warder:
Franz Mertens
The Grand Inquisitor:
Franz Mertens
Priests:
Rene Letroye
Priests:
Piet Verhegge

Alex Comfort introduces readings from Anne Bradstreet , John Green -leaf Whittier, Wait Whitman , Wallace Stevens , John Crowe Ransom , and Robinson Jeffers. (All these poets are represented in the new Oxford Book of American Verse)
Reader. Guy Kingsley Poynter

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Bradstreet
Unknown:
John Green
Unknown:
Wait Whitman
Unknown:
Wallace Stevens
Unknown:
John Crowe Ransom
Unknown:
Robinson Jeffers.

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