by Helena Wood
[Starring] Angela Baddeley and Hugh Burden
with Barbara Couper and Monic Grey
(To be repeated on Friday at 9.15: See page 7)
(Norman Mitchell is in "A View from the Bridge" at the Comedy Theatre, London)
4.30-4.35 Interlude
Opera in three acts
Libretto by Busonello sung in Italian: on gramophone records
Paul Grummer (viola da gamba)
Hermann Leeb (lute) Heinz Wehrle (organ)
Recorder Quintet Zurich Tonhalle
Chorus and Orchestra
Conducted by Walter Goehr
Act 1
L'Incoronazione di Poppea, the first opera to be based on a historical subject, was originally performed in Venice in 1642, when Monteverdi was seventy-five. The subject is the love of the Roman emperor Nero for Poppea, as related in the annals of Tacitus.
Philip Leon, Professor of Classics at University College, Leicester, speaks about some aspects of ancient and modern literary education. His remarks are prompted by a reading of H.I. Marrou's A History of Education in Antiquity, recently published in an English translation.
Act 2
by William Langland
A series of six readings
Devised by Elizabeth Zeeman, Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge
Read by Gary Watson in a slightly modified version of the original
Act 3
followed by an interlude at 8.20
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Carmirelli Quartet: Pina Carmirelli (violin), Montserrat Cervera (violin), Luigi Sagrati (viola), Arturo Bonucci (cello)
A monthly report on the arts, sciences, and politics abroad
Including a talk by Martin Cooper on the revival of the 'opera of ideas' in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites at La Scala, Milan; a talk by Jeremy Sandford on an automatic ballet dancer which appeared at the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre in Paris; and a report from a German periodical on the position of physicists in the modern world.
Goyescas
Part 1:
Los requiebros; Coloquio en la reja: El fandango de Candil; Quejas o la maja y el ruisenor
Part 2:
El amor y la muerte: Balada Epilogo: Serenata del espectro
played by Eric Parkin (piano)
