A story by Kafka read by Kenneth Griffith
With music by Franz Reizenstein
Details as Tuesday 9.40 followed by an interlude at 6.30
In the Third Programme
A Fantastic Musical Comedy in Three Acts and an Epilogue
Based on the story by E.T.A. Hoffmann
Words and music by Ferruccio Busoni
Sung in the Italian version of Giovanni Trampus
(Recording of a performance broadcast in Italy: made available by courtesy of Radiotelevisione Italiana)
The action takes place in Berlin, about 1820
Act 1 at 6.35
Scene 1: The 'Zelte' Beer Garden
Scene 2: A dimly lit tavern
Act 2 at 7.50
Scene 1: A room in Voswinkel's house
Scene 2: Another room in Voswinkel's house
Act 3 at 9.20
Scene 1: The 'Proschlaich' in the Tiergarten
Scene 2: A room in Voswinkel's house
Epilogue: The drawing room in Voswinkel's house
A writer of the 'thirties talks about some of the writers of the 'fifties
Act 2
Bertrand de Jouvenel talks about the current economic policy of the main Western countries
In his opinion they threaten to destroy the precious work of international economy.
Translation by Norman Cameron of ' La Nuit de Mai' by Alfred de Musset (1810-1857)
Programme arranged and introduced by Rayner Heppenstall
Act 3 and EPILOGUE
John Holloway gives a critical reappraisal of two great novels of the 1890s: Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles ' and ' The Awkward Age ' by Henry James
(: a broadcast version of a lecture given in January at the Institute of Contemporary Arts)
