Programme 16 Idomeneo
An illustrated study in the origins of Mozart's opera by HANNS HAMMELMANN and MICHAEL ROSE
Readers:
Roger Snowdon Geoffrey Wincott Neville Hartley Gordon Gardner
Narration by JOHN GLEN
Produced by CHRISTOPHER SYKES
Second broadcast
Dallapiccola has based three of his works on violin music by earlier composers VALERIE TRYON plays one of these translations and some of Schumann's transcriptions of Paganini
Fourth of the series Including music by Dallapiccola
by HAROLD TRUSCOTT
The second of six illustrated talks by Harold Truscott in which he analyses and discusses the late quartets. In this programme he talks about the String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 127 followed by an Interlude at 7.55
by Berlioz
WILLIAM McALPINE (tenor)
CHORUS OF THE FRENCH RADIO Chorus-Master. René Alix
NATIONAL ORCHESTRA OF THE FRENCH RADIO
Leader, Henri Bronschwack
Conducted by CHARLES MUNCH From the Usher Hall, Edinburgh Part 1
† MARTIN COOPER talks about
GEORG CHRISTOFF LICHTENBERG , who was one of the most entertaining of the eighteenth-century moralists. ' Whenever Lichtenberg makes a joke,' Goethe said, ' you will find some problem hidden.'
Part 2
A selection of unpublished poems by Nissim EZEKIEL , JOHN HORDER
JENNY JOSEPH , LAURENCE LERNER DONALD THOMAS. DAVID WEVILL IVAN WHITE , VERNON SCANNELL
Arranged and introduced by GEORGE MAcBETH and read by the poets themselves
Magnificat secundi toni
(Scheidt)
Balletto del granduca
(Sweelinck) played by Finn VIDERO on the Compenius organ at Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark on a gramophone record