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Netherlands String Quartet:
Nap de Klijn , Jaap SchrSder
Paul Godwin , Carel Boomkamp
Last of three programmes including string quartets by Schumann

Written for radio by Giinter Eich
Translated from the German by Michael Hamburger
Gabriele, a Jewish girl of seventeen, is in hiding from the Nazis with her grandfather in a Berlin flat. Inspired by an old newspaper cutting, the two of them reconstruct the story of a party of Italian schoolgirls lost in the Roman catacombs. They feel that their real situation is illuminated by the imagined one in the catacombs, which for the listener symbolise the Nazi gas chambers.
Cast in order of speaking:
IN BERLIN:
Produced by Christopher Holme

Eric Parkin (piano)
John Carol Case (baritone)
Joaephine Lee (piano)
Five Sixteenth-Century Poems:
A thanksgiving; All in a garden green; An aside; A report song; The sweet season
Piano Sonata in E minor
Last of three recitals of songs and piano music by John Ireland