La Damnation de Faust
Regine Crespin (soprano) Andre Turp (tenor)
Michel Roux (baritone) L.S.O. Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Hugh Maguire Conductor,
Pierre Monteux
PART 1
From the Royal Festival Hall, London

Story by ERNEST HEMINGWAY read by William Sylvester
The tall boy with a very pale face who was to be a lawyer had been a lieutenant of Arditi and had three medals of the sort we each had only one of. He had lived a very long time with death and was a little detached. We were all a little detached, and there was nothing that held us together except that we met every afternoon at the hospital.....'
: second broadcast

La Damnation de Faust
PART 2

reads a selection from his poetry introduced by D. G. Bridson

String Quartet No. 3 played by the Quartet Pro
Musica Patrick Halling (violin) Ernest Scott (violin)
Gwynne Edwards (viola) Peter Hailing (cello)
: second broadcast
The tenth of a series of contemporary British music