The Dennis Brain Wind Quintet:
Gareth Morris (flute)
Leonard Brain (oboe)
Stephen Waters (clarinet)
Dennis Brain (horn)
John Alexandra (bassoon)
Adapted from the book by T. H. White
Production by Nesta Pain
(Leader, Jean Rennie)
Conductor, Walter Susskind
Joan Alexander (soprano)
From St. Andrew's Hall, Glasgow
Part 1
Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck, which is to be broadcast from Covent Garden next Friday, tells the tragic, story of a simple, half-crazed soldier who murders his unmarried wife and afterwards commits suicide. The three concert extracts are concerned mainly with the woman, Marie, and her child by Wozzeck. In the first, she stands at her window watching the soldiers march by; afterwards she sings the child to sleep with a lullaby. In the second, she is sitting in her room at night reading the Bible story of the woman taken in adultery, and is stricken with remorse at her own unfaithfulness to Wozzeck. The third extract begins with Wozzeck's death by drowning and leads to the final scene of the opera: the children at play, hearing that Marie has been murdered, run off to see what has happened, leaving Marie's son playing by himself, and unaware of the tragedy that has overtaken him. (Deryck Cooke)
Anglo-American Relations by R. H. S. Crossman , M.P .
Third of a group of talks
(Concert continued)
byCoventry Patmore
Introduced by Derek Patmore
Readers.
Anne Cullen and Robert Speaight
Klavieriibung
Partita No. 1, in B flat
Partita No. 6, in E minor played by Janny van Wering (harpsichord)
Second of eight programmes
by Peter Rose Pulham
The speaker, who has been both photographer and painter, discusses the limitations and resources of photographic art.
Annalies Gamper (soprano)
Sylvia Gahwiller (soprano)
Margherita de Landi (mezzo-soprano)
Claudia Carbi (contralto)
Ferry Gruber (tenor)
Riccardo Manning (tenor)
Fernando Corena (bass)
Choir of the Radio della Svizzera Italiana
(Conductor. Edwin Lohrer)
Things and the Names of Things
Second of two talks by Stuart Hampshire