An opera in two acts
Music by Rossini
Original libretto by LUIGI ROMANELLI
New version by PAUL FRIEDRICH and Gunther RENNERT
Re-translated into Italian by Dahnt-Baroffio sung in Italian by the Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Cast in order of singing:
GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL CHORUS Chorus-Master, Myer Fredman Continuo played by GEOFFREY PARSONS
GLYNDEBOURNE
Festival ORCHESTRA
Leader, David McCallum
Conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD
Producer. Gunther Rennert
Director of musical preparation, Jani Strasser
From Glyndebourne
The action takes place in and around the hunting lodge of Count Asdrubale.
Act 1

An assessment of the role of the director in the contemporary cinema by Paul Mayersberg with the voices of ALEXANDRE ASTRUC , RICHARD BROOKS ROGER CORMAN. JACQUES DEMY
BLAKE EDWARDS , JEAN-Luc GODARD ALFRED HITCHCOCK , SETH HOLT FRITZ LANG. JOSEPH LOSEY
ANTHONY MANN , DANIEL MAINWARING ROBERT PARRISH , HAROLD PINTER and ALAIN RESNAIS
Produced by PHILIP FRENCH
Second broadcast

translated and introduced by KEVIN CROSSLEY HOLLAND read by HUGH DICKSON and GARY WATSON
Second broadcast followed by an interlude at 7.35

Act 2

by Hannes Alfven, Professor of Plasma Physics, Royal Institute of Technology. Sweden

How was the solar system formed? Professor Alfven describes his magnetohydrodynamic theory of 'the small creation'; and discusses the particular problem of the relationship between the earth and the moon.

A radio play by Peter Weiss translated from the German by MICHAEL HAMBURGER with Michael Bryant
Beatrix Lehmann
Nigel Davenport
Other parts: Patricia Leventon Kevin Flood , Bruce Beeby Michael Kilgarriff
Glyn Dearman , Wilfrid Carter Special effects by the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop Produced by MARTIN Esslin
Second broadcast

ROGER FISKE discusses the interpretation of Schumann's Carnaval by CORTOT, Rachmani-NOV, RUBINSTEIN, and others
Second broadcast

Sonata in A minor
FERDINAND CONRAD (recorder) with HUGO RUF (harpsichord)
JOHANNES KOCH (viola da gamba) on a gramophone record