A series of four talks
2-Karl Heim by the Rev. W. A. Whitehouse Dean of the Faculty of Theology
. and Reader in Theology
In the University of Durham
Doris Gambell (soprano) Gladys Jones (contralto)
Lloyd Strauss-Smith (tenor) Frederick Harvey (baritone)
Clifford Harker (organ)
BBC West of England Singers
Conductor, Reginald Redman
From Bristol Cathedral
by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Constance Garnett
Adaptation and production by Mary Hopp Allen
Scene: The chairman'soffice in a large bank in a provincial town in Russia at the end of the last century:
Peter Forster writes on page 21
(' The Woman without a Shadow ')
Opera in three acts
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Music by Richard Strauss
(sung in German) Chorus of the Vienna State Opera
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
CONDUCTED BY KARL BÖHM
A reading of Hilaire Belloc 's poem by Lord Norwich
(concert continued)
Strauss's Die Liebe der Danae ': Sept. 19
Bertram Joseph and Franklyn Kelsey discuss and illustrate the style of Elizabethan dramatic verse speaking
Mr. Joseph has put forward the view that the style of Elizabethan acting can best be approached from a study of the various Renaissance authorities on oratory and rhetoric. In this programme Mr. Kelsey, following Mr. Joseph's direction. will attempt to produce for modern ears a near equivalent to what Elizabethans experienced from the same words and rhythms.
Fantasia in C minor (K.475) Sonata in C minor (K.457) played by Nina Milkina (piano)
Talk by Steven Runciman
The New London Quartet -