A music drama in six scenes by DELIUS
Scenes 1, 2. 8, and 4

by Karen Blixen

The well-known Danish writer, author of Seven Gothic Tales, Out of Africa, and other works, reads a further extract from her Shadows on the Grass. This book, which has an African setting, recalls Karen Blixen 's by now legendary existence on her coffee farm in Kenya more than forty years ago.

The reading was recorded in her country home in Denmark

(Recording by courtesy of Danmarks Radio)

by Delius
Scenes 5 and 6

PART 2
Andrew Young introduces and reads his visionary poem

Piano Trio in B flat major,
Op. 97 (Archduke) played by Jacques Thibaud (violin)
Pablo Casals (cello)
Alfred Cortot (piano) on a gramophone record