(' L'Aiuola Bruciata')
BY UGO BETTI
Translated from the Italian and adapted for radio by HENRY REED
Music for horn composed by William Wordsworth : played by Ian Beers
PRODUCTION BY DONALD MCWHINNI 8
The time is the present. The action takes place in a single night
('The Italian Girl in London')
A comic opera in one act
Libretto attributed to
G. Petrosellini
Music by Cimarosa (revised and edited by Giulio Confalonieri )
(sung in Italian)
Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Milan
Conducted BY ENNIO GERELLI
This amusing work, which brought its composer his first taste of success when it was produced in Rome in 1778, is
' pure burlesque: its two main characters
-an English lord and the girl he left behind him in Italy-guy the throes and transports of the hero and heroine of grand opera. The girl pursues ' Milord ' to London and, after some pseudo-tragic misunderstandings, marries him. It may have been disapproval of such scandalous goings-on concerning an English gentleman that caused those responsible for the first English production (in 1788) to change the title and shift the scene to Amsterdam 1 Deryck Cooke
R. H. Ward reviews two books, The New Man and The Mark, by the late Maurice Nicoll.
Consort of Viols of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis :
August Wenzinger (treble viol)
Marianne Majer (tenor viol)
Hannelore Muller (tenor viol)
Johannes Koch (bass viol) with Desmond DuprS (bass viol)
A monthly report on the arts, science, and politics abroad
Compiled by Alan Pryce-Jones
Including an account by Otto Zarek of cultural relations between the East and West in Germany; a talk by J. M. Cohen on European and Indian trends in recent Mexican literature; and a comment by Rene Menard on the responsibility of modern poets.
by Edgar Lee Masters
Selected and with an introduction written by Dylan Thomas
Produced by Laurence Gilliam
followed by an interlude at 7.40
Sonata in D, Op. 53 played by Ronald Smith (piano)
by Sir Ivor Jennings
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ceylon
2-The Transition to Self-Government
This is the second of two talks by Sir Ivor Jennings on what he calls the greatest political experiment of all time.' The two talks together form an introduction to a series of lectures which he will give, on his return to England, on constitution-building in the nations of the British Commonwealth.
Philharmonia Orchestra
(Leader, Max Salpeter )
Conducted by Charles Groves
Part 1
F. Kingdon-Ward , the plant-hunter, describes a unique group of insectivorous plants whose distribution over East Assam presents peculiar problems to the geographical botanist. Generally growing far from the beaten track, they are seldom met with by the ordinary traveller.
Part 2
Katherine Anne Porter reads her own short story
(The recorded broadcast of Dec 26)
BBC Midland Chorus
Conducted by David Willcocks
George Miles (organ)
From the church of St. Alban the Martyr, Birmingham (The recorded broadcast of July 8)
