' LA CENERENTOLA'
('Cinderella')
An opera in two acts
Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti
Music by Rossini
Cast in order of singing:
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, David McCallum ) Conducted by Vittorio Gut
Produced by Carl Ebert
From Glyndebourne
Act 1
Sc. 1: A hall in Don Magnifico's castle Sc. 2: A room in Don Ramiro's palace Sc. 3: The grand salon in Don Ramiro's palace
'The Revolt of the Angels ' ; ' The Creation of the Sun, the Moon, and the Sea'; 'The Origin of Drink'; ' The Cat and the Candle'; '; ' The Wife Who Ate Nothing ': and other short pieces of oral tradition: originally told in Gaelic, now told in English by Duncan Mclntyre and Robert Mooney
Translation and introduction by Professor J. H. Delargy of the Irish Folklore Commission
Production by David Thomson
Ballet music from
L'Europe Galante (1697) played by a symphony orchestra conducted by Roger Dcsormiere on gramophone records
R. F. Kahn gives the second of two independent comments on our economic position
The speaker, who is a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Professor of Economics in the University, discusses the balance of payments and recent national economic policy.
Act 2
Sc. 1: The wine cellar in Don Ramiro 's palace
Sc. 2: A room in Don Ramiro 's palace Sc. 3: The hall in Don Magnifico's castle
Sc. 4: The grand salon in Don
Ramiro's palace
Talk by J. W. Davidson
Professor of Pacific History in the Australian
National University, Canberra
Last of four talks
Basil Douglas reviews Debussy's ' La Mer ' and Alan Rawsthorne 's Second Piano Concerto
Boyd Neel reviews Mozart's opera ' La Finta Giardiniera ' (K.196)
Ralph Clarke , Herbert New and Ernest Dalwocd
(clarinets)
Walter Lear (bass-clarinet)
Charles Spinks (organ)
BBC Chorus
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
(Continued in next column)
Adrian Cruft 's Introit was written two years ago for David Willcocks and the choir of Worcester Cathedral. The Anthem by Robin Orr , who until last year was organist of St. John's College, Cambridge, is a setting of the first two verses of Psalm 125. Kenneth Harding , who plays the viola in the BBC Symphony Orchestra, wrote his Quartet about eighteen months ago for the four members of the orchestra who are playing it tonight. (His Divertimento for four violas was broadcast in the Third Programme two years ago by four members of the orchestra.) Malcolm Arnold wrote his anthem ' Laudate Dominum ' two years ago for the choir of the Church of St. Matthew in his native town, Northampton. D.C.
Talk by Richard Hoggart
Quartet in C minor, Op. 60 played by the Robert Masters Piano Quartet:
Robert Masters (violin) Nannie Jamieson (viola)
Muriel Taylor (cello)
Kinloch Anderson (piano)
