A play by Gabriel Marcel
English version by Rosalind Heywood
Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes
Incidental music by Christopher Whelen played by the Boyd Neel Orchestra
(led by Joshua Glazier )
Conducted by the composer
' Der hausliche Krieg'
Singspiel in one act
Libretto by Ignaz Castelli
(sung in German) on gramophone records with a recorded introduction by Maurice J. E. Brown
Characters in order of singing:
Akademie Chamber Choir
Pro Musica Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTED BY FERDINAND GROSSMAN
This work was never performed during Schubert's lifetime. At the first performance in 1861 at Frankfurt-am-Main, the librettist, then aged eighty, was present. He was amazed at the sparkle and charm of the music, having heard many years previously that Schubert had made a tedious and gloomy setting of his play. It is being broadcast this afternoon for the first time in this country.
* Der hausliche Krieg'
Singspiel in one act
A monthly series on current questions in architecture and town planning
Some Thoughts on German Architecture by Richard Sheppard F.R.I.B.A , .
A talk occasioned by the exhibition, ' German Architecture Today,' at present on view at the Royal Institute of British Architects, London.
of Dante Alighieri
The second cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon
A reading in six parts
Produced by Peter Duval Smith
PART 4 (Cantos 18-22)
Virgil explains to Dante the nature of love-the poets reach the fourth terrace of the Slothful, who expiate their sin by running ceaselessly-in the fifth terrace the poets meet the Avaricious and the Prodigal, who are bound prostrate upon the ground-Hugh Capet denounces the greed of his successors to the throne of France-Dante and Virgil meet Statius. the Roman poet, who having expiated his sin joins their company-the three poets come to the sixth terrace where the Gluttonous wait; painfully emaciated, these spirits are taunted by the sight of fruit and water that they cannot reach.
Quartet in E. Op. 17 No. 1 Quartet in F. Op. 50 No. 5 Quartet in G, Op. 54 No. 1 played by the Quatuor Haydn:
Georges Maes (violin) Louis Hertog (violin)
Louis Logie (viola)
Rene Pousseele (cello)
A talk by Thomas Mann
Part 1
Part 2: see 9.40
Myra Verney (soprano)
Raymond Nilsson (tenor)
Hervey Alan (bass-baritone)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate ) Charles Spinks (harpsichord)
Goldsbrough Orchestra
(Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz )
Conducted by John Russell
(Continued in next column)
A talk by Thomas Mann
Part 2
Introduction, Passacaglia Fugue
Op. 27 played by Philip Dore (organ)
From the Royal Festival Hall, London
(The recorded broadcast of January 12)
Illustrated talk by Desmond Shawe-Taylor
(The recorded broadcast of January 8)