Sonata in D minor, Op. 108 played by Frederick Grinke (violin)
Kendall Taylor (piano)
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Persephone
A melodrama in three parts
Persephone ravished Persephone in hell
Persephone reborn
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate)
Schola Polyphonica
(trained by Henry Washington)
Philharmonia Orchestra
(Leader, Manoug Parikian)
Conducted by Igor Markevitch
See also 8.40 p.m.
Last January, on two successive evenings in the Third Programme, Igor Markevitch conducted 7'he Rite of Spring and Persephone. Tonight (and also next Monday) he is doing so again, except that owing to force of circumstances the order of the two works has had to be reversed. Although both have spring as their subject they well represent the change that took place in Stravinsky's style of writing during the twenty-one years that separate them, The Rite having been produced in 1913 and Persephone in 1934. The earlier work, with its astounding rhythmical vitality and its highly original orchestra] effects, is still capable of arousing excitement and wonder. The appeal of Persephone, on the other hand, is less immediate and striking; yet it has a quiet beauty that is apt to call forth increased appreciation each time it is heard. The text, by Andre Gide , (to be sung in an English translation by Rollo H. Myers) is concerned with Persephone's abduction, her visit to the underworld, and her eventual rebirth as a symbol of spring.
(Harold Rutland)
Talk by Colin Mclnnes
In honour of Picasso's seventieth birthday a retrospective exhibition of his drawings and watercolours is being held in London at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. At the same time-at the Arcade Gallery-Picasso's contemporary, the Cubist sculptor Laurens, is having his first exhibition in this country. Colin Mclnnes speaks of the ways in which these artists have altered our ideas about visual reality.
(Concert continued)
The Rite of Spring Philharmonia Orchestra
(Leader. Manoug Parikian)
Conducted by Igor Markevitch
('Rome n'est plus dans Rome') by Gabriel Marcel
English version by Rosalind Heywood and E. J. King Bull
Production by E. J. King Bull
(Jill Balcon broadcasts by permission of the Directors oj the Old Vic Trust)
Piano Sonata in G, Op. 78 played by Peter Stadlen
3—The Dying God in Syria and Greece: a problem of similarities by Henri Frankfort
