Concerto in the Italian style
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue played by Aimee van de Wiele
(harpsichord)
Fourth of seven programmes including keyboard music by Bach played on the piano, harpsichord, clavichord, and organ.
A recent concert in the Third Programme included a mobile for tape and percussion by Piotr Zak. There is, in fact, no such piece of music and no composer of this name. Hans Keller of the BBC's Music Department explains to Donald Mitchell and Jeremy Noble how this curiosity came into existence, and they discuss its relevance to the present state of composition.
Followed by an interlude at 5.50
and of the maiden Fevronya
An opera in four acts
Libretto by V. 1. Byelsky
Music by RIMSKY-KORSAKOV sung in Russian
Recording of a performance broadcast in Russia: made available by courtesy of Sovetskoe Radio
The action takes place in the year 6751 after the creation of the world.
Act 1: A forest glade on the banks of the Volga
ACT 2: The market square in Little Kitezh, a village near Great Kitezh See page 11
A timed synopsis is printed in ' The Listener' dated August 10
The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh
CAST
Soldiers, guests, townsfolk beggars. Tartars
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE ALL-UNION RADIO
Chorus-Master, Klavdi Ptitsa
Conductor, VASILI NEBOLSIN
by A. E. Dyson
Mr. Dyson believes that the apparent frivolity of Oscar Wilde is really a literary device to reorientate contemporary moral standards. He analyses Wilde's theory of aesthetics and his neglected essay The Soul of Man Under Socialism in support of this view.
Acr 3
Scene 1: Before the Cathedral in Great Kitezh
Scene 2: On the banks of Lake Svetly Yar
by John Hale of Jesus College, Oxford
The speaker argues that during the Renaissance Englishmen on the whole were not eager to fight, and the Government used the pulpit to stir them up. Some preachers were so enthusiastic about the war that they wrote military books based on the Bible.
The Poet's Voice with contributions by Andrew Currey. Edward Lowbury Christopher Middleton
Peter Porter. Vernon Scannell
James Schevill , Donald Thomas
Arranged and introduced by George MacBeth and read by the poets themselves
Aci 4
Scene 1: In the depths of the Forest of Kershencts
Scene 2: The city of Great Kitezh, now miraculously transfigured
Two programmes compiled and introduced by A. L. LLOYD
1: Dance Music and Lyrical Songs
The Rumanian countryside abounds in humble professional musicians, mostly gypsies, including many remarkable virtuosi. Their music impinges on the * classical' folk song of the peasants, but is separate from it. A. L. Lloyd recently spent some months in Rumania investigating the social, economic, and artistic life of these minstrels and recording their music.
Production by Douglas Cleverdon : second broadcast
