A Japanese Noh Play
Part 1: The medieval play by Kwanami
Translated by Arthur Waley with Fay Compton as Ono no Komachi Michael Aldridge as the Priest Hugh Burden as the Chorus
Music and excerpts from a Japanese performance recorded in the studios of NHK. Tokyo, by members of the Kanze school
Introduction written and arranged by Geoffrey Bownas
Production by David Thomson
8.40 app. Matyas Seiber
Elegy for viola and small orchestra played by Cecil Aronowitz (viola) London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by the composer on a gramophone record
8.50 app.
Part 2 : The modern play on the same theme by Yukio Mishima
Translated by Donald Keene
Adapted for radio by David Thomson with Fay Compton as Komachi Michael Aldridge as the Poet Programmes arranged by Geoffrey Bownas
Production by DAVID THOMSON
: third broadcast

PART 1
Quartet in B flat. Op. 130
The Amadeus String Quartet Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)

DENIS STEVENS introduces and reads from the recently published collection, edited and translated by EMILY ANDERSON , some of the letters Beethoven wrote in his later years.
Second of two programmes

PART 2
Grosse Fuge, Op. 133
The Kroll String Quartet William Kroll (violin) Louis Graeler (violin)
David Mankovitz (viola)
Avron Twerdowsky (cello)
: second broadcast
Eleventh programme in the series Op. 131: December 19