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Part 1: The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman

6.10 app. During the Interval
Two Fantasies (Orlando Gibbons), played by the Viols of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis: on a record

6.20 app. Part 2: The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman and concerning the life of Do-well, Do-better, and Do-best

(BBC recording)
To be repeated on November 12

followed by an interlude at 7.40

An opera in three acts.
Libretto by Andrea-Leone Tottola based on the poem of Sir Walter Scott
Music by Rossini
(sung in Italian)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale, Florence
(Chorus-Master, Andrea Morosini)
Conducted by Tullio Serafin
(Recording of a performance at this year's Florence Maggio Musicale; made available of courtesy of Radio-televisione Italiana)
The action takes place in the West Highlands of Scotland near Loch Katrine.
Act 1
Scene 1: The Ridge of Benledi near Loch Katrine: dawn
Scene 2: The castle of Douglas
Scene 3: The same as Scene I

by Peter Smithson.
Earlier this year the speaker, a young architect, went to Greece for the second time. Apart from visits to many sacred sites he studied classical fortifications and town lay-outs in Attica and the Peloponnese. In this talk he examines some nineteenth-and twentieth-century theories about the grouping of Greek buildings. He refers to The Idea of Space in Greek Architecture by Rex Martienssen, and The Pelican History of Greek Architecture by A. W. Lawrence.
(BBC recording)

Act 2
Dense forest near the castle of Douglas

Act 3
A hall in the royal palace

by Rupert Cross, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford
(The recorded broadcast of Sept. 1)