Roy Campbell introduces a selection from his translation of the poems of St. John of the Cross, read by Alan Wheatley
The Schola Polyphonica
Director, Henry Washington
Ralph Downes (organ)
Mass: Salve intemerata
Virgo Kyrie ; Gloria; Credo
Offertory: Felix namque
Mass: Salve intemerata Virgo
Sanctus and Benedictus; Agnus Dei
Second of five programmes of music by Tallis.
Malthus in the Twentieth Century
Talk by Alan Peacock Reader in Public Finance at the London School of Economics
Last of a group of three talks
To be repeated on June 10 followed by an interlude at 7.25
A lyric drama in a prologue and three acts by Temistocle Solera
Music by Verdi
Chorus and Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Rome
(Chorus-Master. Roberto Benaglio )
Conductor, Alfredo Simonetto
(Recording made available by courtesy of Radio Italiana, Rome)
(Postponed from February 15)
The action takes place in France between the years 1429 and 1431 Prologue
Sc. 1: A large courtyard In the castle of Domremy
Sc. 2: A shrine in the forest near
Domremy
Act 1
Sc. 1: A Held of battle near Rheims Sc. 2: The garden of the palace at
Rheims
Talk by Bonamy Dobree
The speaker comments on some aspects of the work of Rudyard Kipling that have so far received little attention from other critics
Act 2
The square before Rheims Cathedral
Act 3
In a fort held by the English
This opera, which has for its subject the life and death of the Maid of Orleans, is one of Verdi's earliest: it was written in 1845, when he was thirty-two, and produced that year at La Scala, Milan. The libretto, by Solera, takes certain liberties with historical fact, representing Joan as in love with the Dauphin, and shirking the final conflagration by letting her die of wounds sustained in battle. The opera was a success at its first performince, but it has since disappeared from the repertoire. D. C.
In the second of four illustrated talks, Edward Sackville-West compares different interpretations, on records, of Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat
Cromwell, the Kirk, and the King
Written by'Ivan Roots in collaboration with Christopher Sykes
Principal characters in order of speaking:
Production by Christopher Sykes
Saudades do Brasil
Sorocaba: Leme: Ipanema: Corcovado; Tijuca; Sumarg; Larenjeiras played by Angus Morrison (piano)
Second of two talks by A. Tilney Bassett
(The recorded broadcast of Jan. 2)
