A fragmentary comedy by Menander
Translated and completed by Gilbert Murray
Music composed and conducted by Antony Hopkins
Characters in order of speaking:
The action takes place in the country near Athens in the fourth century B.C.
Produced by Charles Lefeaux
The play is introduced by Gilbert Murray
Leon Goossens (oboe d'amore)
Patricia Clark (soprano)
Pamela Bowden (contralto)
Eric Greene (tenor)
John Carol Case (baritone)
The Cantata Singers
Hubert Dawkes
(harpsichord continuo)
Osborne Peasgood
(organ continuo)
The Jacques Orchestra
(Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz )
Conductor, Reginald Jacques
Cantata No. 8: Liebster Gott wann werd' ich sterben
Concerto in A, for oboe d'amore and string orchestra
Cantata No. 34: 0 ewiges Feuer
Talk by Julius Lewin , LL.B.
Senior Lecturer in Native Law and Administration,
Witwatersrand University
Mr. Lewin analyses some of the factors in both Afrikaans- and English-speaking South Africans which he believes are continuing to keep the two groups apart. He considers that the unusual situation of political power resting with one group, and economic power predominantly with the other, gives rise to a balance of social forces that may well constitute the country's salvation.
followed by an interlude at 8.55
Thomas Brockman (piano)
by Joseph Hislop
Mr. Hislop talks about the great Italian baritone whom he knew v. hen they were both singing with the Chicago Opera Company in the twenties.
The illustrations include arias from
Hamlet (Thomas), Dinorah (Meyerbeer), and Chatterton (Leoncavallo).
An enquiry for radio by Harold Lang and Kenneth Tynan
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
[Starring] Naomi Jacob and Ernest Milton
and with James Ferman, Alun Owen, Ian Sadler, Morris Sweden and Leonard Trolley
The calypso sung by Lord Beginner
Quintet in G, Op. 60 No. 5
Ballo Tedesco (Quintet in A, Op. 29
No. 6) played by the Boccherini Quintet:
Guido Mozzato (violin) Arrigo Pelliccia (violin)
Luigi Sagrati (viola)
Arturo Bonucci (cello) Nerio Brunelli (cello) on gramophone records