by Robert Riefling
(' The Knights of Ekeby') A lyric opera in four acts
Libretto by Arturo Rossato based on Gösta Berling's Saga' by Selma Lagerlof
Music by Zandonai Gosta Berling (Mirto Picchi); Margareta, called 'The Commandant' (Fedora Barbieri); Anna (Rina Malatrasi);
Cristiano, captain of the knights (Giampiera Malespina); Sintram, Anna's father (Antonio Zaccaria); Liecrona, a knight (Mario Carlin); Samzehus, Margareta's husband (Bruno Ciont); Hostess of the inn (Maria Amadint); A girl
(Nicoletta Pannt); A knight (Arrigo Cattelani)
Chorus and Orchestra of Radiotelevisione Italiana, Milan
(Chorus-Master, Roberto Benaglio )
CONDUCTED BY ALFREDO SIMONETTO
Scene: Ekeby, a Swedish town, in the 1820s ACT 1: The interior of an inn
ACT 2: A large hall in the castle of Ekeby
H. G. NICHOLAS , Reader in the Comparative Study of Institutions, University of Oxford, examines the history of electoral bargains in Britain since the mid-iath century. He connects the decline in these local agreements between parties with the extinction of multi-member constituencies where allied militants could all fight for their own men.
ACT 3: A forge in the castle
ACT 4: A courtyard in the castle
by E. M. Forster , C.H.
This talk is prompted by the recent book Elizabeth of the German Garden by Leslie de Charms. Mr. Forster went to Pomerania in 1905 as tutor to the children of the, English authoress Countess von Arilim, who wrote under the name of Elizabeth.
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Concerto in B flat (J. Stamltz): Jost Michaels (clarinet), Munich Chamber Orchestra (harpsichord, Ingrid Heller), conductor Carl Gorvin
Symphony in E (1821 sketch) (Schubert, completed by Weingartner): Vienna State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Franz Litschauer on gramophone records
