by Georg Buchner
Translated by John Holmstrom
Cast in order of speaking: with Mary Wimbush , Nicolette Bernard Dorothy Holmes-Gore , Diane Watts
Music composed and conducted by Francis Chagrin
The play adapted and produced by R. D. Smith
Time: Much and April 1794. Place: The streets, revolutionary courts, and gaols of Paris; also the guillotine.
R. D. Smith writes on page 7
During the interval In the performance of the play ' Danton's Death ':
7.15-7.30 app. Cherubini
Orchestral music: gramophone records
Geoffrey Gilbert (flute)
Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
Nancy Evans (mezzo-soprano)
Stephen Manton (tenor)
Scott Joynt (bass)
Charles Spinks (organ)
BBC Chorus
St. Cecilia Orchestra (Leader, Thomas Carter )
Conducted by Leslie Woodgate
The seventh of a series of concerts including lesser-known choral works by Mozart. The next programme, on August IS, includes the Missa brevis in D minor (K.65).
by Colin Hardie
Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford
1-The Tradition
In recent broadcasts Professor E. R. Dodds advanced arguments for the multiple authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Mr. Hardie believes that they were composed by one and the same poet. In this talk he gives his view of the oral tradition within which Homer worked.
Chants de Terre et de Ciel
Bail avec Mi (pour ma femme); Antienne du silence (pour Ie jour des Anges gardiens); Danse du bebe-Piluie t'pour mon petit Pascal); Arc-en-ciel d'innocence (pour mon petit Pascal); Minuit pile ct face (pour la Mort); Resurrection (pour It jour de Paquea) sung by Adele Leigh (soprano) with Peter Gellhorn (piano)
(Adele Leigh broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covem Garden, Ltd.; Peter Gellhorn , by permission of Glyndebourne Opera)
These songs, which appeared in 1939, are settings by the composer of his own words. The 'Mi' of the first song is Messiaen's wife; the 'petit Pascal' in the third and fourth is his son, who was still a child when the songs were written. The songs as a whole reveal that preoccupation with rhythmic and textural complexities which, carried to extreme lengths in his recent music, has caused Messiaen to be a controversial figure in contemporary music. D.C.
by Louis MacNeice
Daily News; Evans and India; The Battersea Pleasure Gardens; Circe and the Love of Women; The Quest Begins; The World of the Ants.
Principal readers: Marius Goring and Robert Irwin
Also taking part: Anthony Jacobs
This is the third of six programmes in which Louis MacNeice introduces an abridged version of has new long poem Autumn Sequel, shortly to be published. Part 3 consists of Cantos 10, 11, and 14 of the complete poem.
Aimee van de Wiele (harpsichord)
