Symphony No. 88, in G major
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler
on a gramophone record
A parable for radio by Alan Sharp with music composed and played by Richard Rodney Bennett
(Second broadcast followed by interlude at 6.55)
Music drama in five acts
Music by Mussorgsky
Version by Shostakovich
Libretto by the composer
Translated by Petar Konjovic presented by The Belgrade Opera
Sung in Serbian
Chorus, Orchestra and Ballet of the Belgrade Opera
Conducted by Dusan Miladinovic
From the King's Theatre, Edinburgh
Act 1: Moscow, Red Square
Act 2: A reception room in the palace of Prince Galitzin
Act 3: Moscow, the Streltsy quarter
by T.G. Rosenthal
Mr. Rosenthal considers the painting of Strindberg, Lorca, D.H. Lawrence, and Henry Miller from the viewpoint of its relationship to their writing.
Act 4: Scene 1: The banqueting room in the palace of Prince Ivan Khovansky
A short story by Heinrich Boll.
Translated from the German by Richard Graves
Read by Gilbert Harding
(Third broadcast)
Act 4: Scene 2: Outside the cathedral of St. Basil in Red Square
Act 5: A pine forest: the hermitage of the Old Believers
by M.I. Finley, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, who discusses the myth of Sparta's moral and military superiority to other Greek city-states.
(Second broadcast)
