Suite : The Wonderful Mandarin played by the Orchestra of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk
Conductor, Hans Rosbaud
(Recording made available by courtesy of N.W.D.R., Cologne)
In The Wonderful Mandarin, originally a mime-play, a girl lures three men into a den of thieves, where they are attacked. The third man is a mandarin, whose life is uncannily prolonged until his desires are satisfied. Bartok wrote the music in 1918-19, and afterwards drew from it an orchestral suite which was played in Budapest in 1928.
Literature Since Stalin's Death Talk by Edward Crankshaw
Hans Leygraf (piano)
J. Isaacs speaks about the American poet whose eightieth birthday falls today
by William Shakespeare
Produced for radio by Wilfrid Grantham from the 1953 stage production by George Devine at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre,
Stratford-upon-Avon
Music composed by John Gardner played by the Memorial Theatre Orchestra Conductor, Harold Ingram
Characters in order of speaking:
(Continued in next column) and and During the interval (9.10-9.26 app.):
Stravinsky
Concerto in D. for string orchestra played by the Hallé Orchestra Conductor, Sir John Barbirolli on gramophone records
by Andre Marchal with the Ambrosian Singers
Improvisation: Verses on Pange lingua
From St. Peter's Church,
Eaton Square, London
