Violin Concerto in D minor played by ZINO FRANCESCATTI (violin)
HELSINKI CITY
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by TAUNO HANNIKAINEN
Recording made at the 1962 Sibelius Festival in Helsinki: made available by Oy Yleis radio Ab., Helsinki
A conversation piece by Robert Baldick based on the Goncourt Journals
Produced by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL Third broadcast
An opera in six scenes
Music by Alban Berg
Libretto after two tragedies ' Erdgeist ' and ' Biichse der Pandora ' by Frank Wedekind
PHILHARMONIC STATE ORCHESTRA
Conductor and general music director, LEOPOLD LUDWIG
Producer, Giinther Rennert
Scene 1: An artist's studio
Scene 2: An elegant apartment Scene 3: A theatre dressing-room
A sequence by VERNON WATKINS Reader, DENIS GOACHER
Scene 4: A large hall in the German renaissance style
Scene 5: The same
Scene 6: An attic in London
EDWARD LOCKSPEISER discusses the wide ranging influence of Poe on Debussy's thought
The programme includes the first performance in this country of an extract from Debussy's unfinished opera based on Poe's tale The Fall of the House of Usher.
