Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
Conductor, August Wenzinger
Canzon 1, La Spiritata; Sonata plan e forte; Sonata con tre violin (Giovanni Qabrieli)
Canzon: La Padovana (Ludovico Grossi Viadana)
Canzon 34 (Tiburfto Massaino)
Canzon 2 (Giovanni Gabrieli )
on a gramophone record
An excursion in literature and mythology
Written and produced by Terence Tiller
' They say the owl was a baker's daughter . . . ' What are the legends and beliefs behind this enigmatic remark of Ophelia's, in Act 4 of Hamlet? How far was Shakespeare conscious of them, and how are they relevant to his play? Narrator, Denis Goacher with Olive Gregg , Marjorie Westbury, Arthur Bush , Frank Duncan Basil Jones, Godfrey Kenton, James McKechnie, Gabriel Woolf
A new version of the programme originally heard in 1950
BBC recording: second broadcast
followed by an interlude at 7.26
Opera In three acts by Benjamin Britten
Libretto after Shakespeare by Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten
Covent Garden Opera Orchestra Leader, Charles Taylor
Conducted by Georg Solti
From the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Act I: A wood outside Athens
by Nikolaus Pevsner, Professor of the History of Art in tihe University of London
Professor Pevsner is disturbed at what he calls the undisciplined and anti-rational approach of many architects today; he finds its most unattractive aspect in 'the new Neo-Isms,' especially in this country and Italy. To what extent, he asks, are architectural historians such as himself to blame for this departure from the rational and functional principles which seemed, in the 'thirties, so soundly established? Broadcast version of a recent address to the R.I.B.A.
Acr 2: The wood
New translations from the Anglo-Saxon by Burton Raffel
Readers John Laurie, Anthony White
BBC recording: third broadcast
Acr 3: The wood, early next morning; and (later) the palace of Theseus
A centenary assessment of "East Lynne", by Margaret M. Maison
BBC recording: second broadcast
Close down at 11.5
