London Baroque Ensemble
Conductor. Karl Haas
Suite in D (Telemann)
Three Sonatas: G; C; F (C. P.
B. Bach )
Serenade in C minor (K.388) (Mozart) on gramophone records
Reflections on the Oscar Wilde centenary
Graham Hough speaks about Oscar Wilde in the light of a remark by Yeats: 'I considered him essenually a man of action, that he was a writer by accident.....'
(The recorded broadcast of Oct. 16)
194 m. (1,546 kc/s)
John Gallagher , Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, considers some of the economic effects of transatlantic migration discussed in Professor Brinley Thomas 's recent book Migration and Economic Growth.
from the Festival du Centre de Documentation de
Musique Internationale
Henry Huguenin
(baritone)
Henry Merckel (violin)
Odette Turba-Rabier (soprano)
Solange Michel (mezzo-soprano)
Paul Derenne (tenor)
Xavier Depraz (bass)
Choeurs de la
Radiodiffusion-Television
Frangaise
(Continued in next column)
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion-Television
Frangaise
Conducted by Manuel Rosenthal
Part 1
From the Grand Theatre des Champs-EIysees, Paris
The Centre de Documentation de Musique Internationale, founded in 1951, has its headquarters in Paris; the president is the French composer and conductor, Pierre Capdevielle. The Centre's aim is to make available a comprehensive library of contemporary and ancient music (in manuscript, microfilm, published, or recorded form) with a catalogue of all information necessary for research or performance. It has delegates all over the world, publishes a quarterly bulletin covering contemporary musical activity, and has organised a number of exhibitions. This concert is the first of ten given in collaboration with RTF. D.C.
Well-chosen Herbs
Wisdom with Wines
Talk by Lady Vischer
Part 2
of Dante Alighieri
The first cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon
A reading in six parts
Part 3 (Cantos 12-17): The Seventh Circle of the violent; the River of Blood (tormenting the violent against others); the Wood of the Suicides; the Ring of Burning Sand (tormenting the violent against God, Nature, and Art); the poets meet the monster Geryon, guardian of the Eighth Circle; they descend into the great abyM on his back.
Suzanne Danco (soprano)
Ernest Lush (piano)