De Maistre (1754-1821)
Last of six weekly lectures by Isaiah Berlin
Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
Thia lecture is concerned with the views of Comte Joseph Marie de Maistre, most brilliant and savage of all the critics of liberal democracy and one of the earliest forerunners of romantic Fascism.
(The recorded broadcast of Dec. 3)
' Chvala Housli '
(In Praise of the Violin)
(Sonata in D in variation form for violin, piano, and mezzo-soprano) Esther Salaman (mezzo-soprano)
Suzanne Rozsa (violin)
Paul Hamburger (piano)
Ladislav Vycpalek was born near Prague In 1882. This sonata is designed on a large scale and contains much elaborate writing for the violin; at one point, about half-way through, the voice enters and lings in praise of the instrument.
by Edmund Spenser
Programme 11: ‘Colin Clout; the Rescue of Pastorella '
(Being Cantos 10 and 11 of Book 6)
For further details see Wednesday at 9.5
by John Gay
In a musical version realised from the original airs by Benjamin Britten
The English Opera Group
Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Hans Geiger )
Conductor, Norman Del Mar
Reipetiteur, Robert Keys Producer, Basil Coleman
Scene: The Great Room at St. Gilea' where the beggars enact their opera
(Continued in next column)
Act 1
9.15 app. During the interval:
The Running Patterer
An interview by Henry Mayhew adapted by Douglas Cleverdon from ' London Labour and the London Poor' with Ernest Jay and Carleton Hobbs
9.25 app. Act 2
10 15 app. During the interval:
The Watercress Girl
An interview by Henry Mayhew adapted by Douglas Cleverdon from 'London Labour and the London Poor' with Diana Maddox and Carleton Hobbs
10.25 app. Act 3
(A second performance of the programme broadcast on December 5)
(Glenice Halliday broadcasts by permission of the Governors of Sadler's Wells; Otakar Kraus , of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)
Ormerod Greenwood talks about
' The Journal of George Fox '
This has recently been re-edited by John Nickalls with an introduction by Geoffrey Nuttall and an epilogue by Henry J. Cadbury.
In August this year the Quakers commemorated the tercentenary of their foundation as a society by George Fox.
(The recorded broadcast of August 22)
See also tomorrow at 11.30
String Quintet in D (K.593) played by the Budapest Quartet with Milton Katims (viola) on gramophone records
