by FERRUCCIO VIGNANELLI
Toccata No. 1 ;
From Westminster Abbey
in the Early Centuries
First of two talks by ELIZABETH SALTER
Lecturer in English in the University of Cambridge
Before the Norman Conquest, English poetry and prose had reached a high level of sophisticated excellence. After the Norman disturbance a few well-written English pieces emerged in the thirteenth century.
Second broadcast
A ballad by Mervyn Peake with music specially composed and conducted by Tristram Cary.
An apocalyptical evocation of the London blitz in the Second World War. The mother, the sailor, and the child are the characters in a narrative of re-birth in the midst of destruction. The poem is set to a score for small orchestra.
Mary Stocks gives another commentary on current affairs in this fortnightly series
An opera in one act
Libretto by ERNST VON WOLZOGEN Music by Richard Strauss sung In German
Cast in order of singing:
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Citizens, women, children. and retainers
CHORUS OF THE BAVARIAN RADIO Chorus-Master, Wolfgang Schubert
TÖLZ Boys' CHOIR
Chorus-Master,
Gerhard Schmidt MUNICH PHILHARMONIC Orchestra Conducted by FRITZ RIEGER
The action takes place in Munich in the early Middle Ages on Mid. summer's Eve.
Recording made available by courtesy of the Bavarian Radio
Two programmes about the channels of communication between artist and public
2: The Patron and his Purpose In this programme Edward Lucie -Smith turns to the function of the patron. Has his role changed during the last century? How far is he the ultimate creator of fashion in art? Is fashion influenced more by the intermediary and the critic than by the objective judgment of public or patron?
EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH talks with HOWARD HODGKIN , painter
PAULINE VOGELPOEL , Secretary of the Contemporary Art Society PETER WILSON , Chairman of Sotheby's, and JOHN WEIGHTMAN , Reader in French Language and Literature at Westfield College, London
Sonatas for violin and plane recorded during her visit to this country last year by the American violinist
SYLVIA ROSENBERG and PAUL HAMBURGER
