Alborada del gracioso played by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Conducted by Ernest Ansermet on gramophone records
Robert Simpson talks about Carl Nielsen 's chamber music, with particular reference to the string quartets
Illustrations played by the Element Quartet
See tomorrow at 6.0
followed by an interlude at 6.55
(sung in German)
From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
(by arrangement with the Covent Garden Opera Trust)
Scene: Vienna in 1860 Act 1
A private sitting-room in a large hotel
8.5 app. Interval
8.20 app. Act 2
A public ballroom
9.10 app. Interval
9.25 app. Act 3
The lounge and main staircase of the hotel
A broadcast version of the Tarner Lectures, 1953 by Professor Gilbert Ryle
2 — ' It was to be '
English Suites
No. in D minor No. 3, in G minor played by Geraint Jones (harpsichord)
The six English Suites for harpsichord were composed about 1725 and published after Bach's death They were probably described as ' English ' because Bach's youngest son, Johann Christian, possessed a manuscript copy in which the prelude to the first suite bore the words fait pour les Anglois. This prelude is in fact an expansion of a gigue by Dieupart, a French composer very popular in England in the early years of the 18th century. H.R.
Talk by Frank Kermode
Lecturer in English Literature at Reading Univereity
Mr. Kermode considers the part literary history can play in the appreciation of neglected books. The work he has chosen as illustration is Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece.
