A tragedy by Hugo von Hofmannsthal translated by MICHAEL HAMBURGER adapted for broadcasting by WILLIAM GLEN-DOEPEL with Patrick Allen
Denys Hawthorne
William Devlin , Felix Felton
Leslie Perrins
Music composed and conducted by ROBERTO GERHARD
Main characters: and Produced by H. B. FORTUIN and WILLIAM GLEN-DOEPEL tThird broadcast
The theme of a prince imprisoned because of a prophecy that he would one day overthrow his father was taken from Calderon's Life is a Dream, but Hofmannsthal developed it into a great universal drama concerned with the conflict between dream and reality and between spiritual and secular power in any age.
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Johann Friedrich Fasch
Sonata in G major, for flute, two alto recorders, continuo on a gramophone record

MILTON THOMAS (viola)
GEORGIA AKST (piano)