Music for Piano Duet played by Helen Pyke and Maurice Cole
Allegro moderato and Andante
Variations on a French theme. Op.
10: Reposez-vous, bon Chevalier
A comedy by Euripides
Translated by Philip Vellacott
Music by John Hotchkis
Radio adaptation and prod.ucition by Raymond Raikes Characters in order of speaking: and (Continued in next column)
, The play was first publicly produced at
Athens in 412 B.C.
Scene: Egypt, seven years after the end of The Trojan War
A melodrama in three acts
Libretto by Gaetano Rossi
Music by Donizetti
(sung in Italian)
Cast in order of singing:
Chorus and Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Milan
(Chorus-Master, Roberto Benaglto)
Conducted by Alfredo Simonetto
Time: the middle of the eighteenth century
Act 1: The Departure
Savoy: a picturesque mountain village
A series of talks commenting on current legal issues
3-The Matrimonial Home
Talk by a Barrister
This talk discusses the property rights which a wife may have in the matrimonial home, even though it stands in the name of her husband.
Act 2: Paris
An elegant apartment Act 3: The Return
Savoy: the bquare of a village in a valley
A new translation into English by W. S Menwin of the medieval Spanlsih epic
Produced by Terence Tiller in six pants
Cantar 1: Part 2
The Cid, Ruy Diaz , captures much treasure from the Moors and sends gifts to King Alfonso of Castille. But the King refuses to pardon him and, though The Cid continues to increase his wealth by conquest, he remains an exile.
Léon Goossens (oboe)
The Boyd Neel Orchestra
(Leader, Granville Jones )
Conducted by Anthony Collins
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A monthly report on the arts, science, and politics abroad
Compiled by Alan Pryce-Jones
This month's programme is devoted to aspects of art in Germany. It includes a report on the ballet, by Ronald Crichton, and extracts from Heinrich Strobel's speech made this autumn, at the Donaueschinigen Music Festival
A survey of Spanish music from the Middle Ages to the present day prepared by Roberto Gerhard and Lionel Salter
3-Religious Polyphony of the Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries
Tropes and Motets from Ripoll, Scala Del (Tarragona), and Las Huelgas recorded in Spain by boys of the Montsennat Choir School and monks of the Monastery of Montserrat, directed by Padre David Pujol
Introduced by Robento Gerhand
Kynie, Cunotipotens (Trope from Compostela-Ripoll); Sanctus, Ave verum (Trope from Las Huelgas); Agnius Dei , cnimrina tollls (Trope from Scala Del. Tarragona); Recordare. Ab hac familia (Offertory from Scala Dei, Tarragona); 0 Marja maris 0 Maria Dei cella (Double motet from Las Huelgas); Splend,idus regis thronus Solaris: Leo, bos e,t aquila regalls; Credo (from Las Huelgas)
Talk by Asa Briggs
Two recem books-The Reason Why by Cecil Woodiham-Smith , and The Brudenells of Deene by Joan Wake—have examined the background and circumstances of the Charge of the Light Brigade. They are reviewed by Asa Briggs , Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
Three Sonatas (Domenico Scarlatti): D minor (L.422); F minor (L.382); F (L. Supp. 20)
Les Fastes de la grande et ancienme Menestirandise (Acts 2 and 3); Le dodo, ou l'amour au berceau; Musette de Taverny (Couperin)
French Suite No. 6. in E (Back) on gramophone records
