all composed in 1952 tBroadcasting debut in this country of Ornella Vannucci Trevese
Preludio, fuga, e postludlo
(Omaggio a Paul Hindemith )
Vittorio Fellegara first broadcast performance In this country
An illustrated talk by BASIL LAM who discusses Beethoven's approach to opera in Leonora and Fidelio
He argues against the generally accepted view of Leonora as a mere first attempt at Fidelio and maintains that they are two separate achievements.
Second broadcast
Leonora: October 5 Fidelio: October 10
A selection from his translation of the Amores of Ovid
Read and introduced by DENIS GOACHER
Second broadcast
BARBARA ELSY (soprano)
MAUREEN LEHANE (contralto)
ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone)
THE MARTINDALE SIDWELL CHOIR
PHILOMUSICA OF London Leader. Carl Pini
Conducted by MARTINDALE SIDWELL
Part 1
Why did Keats live in poverty?
In this talk ROBERT GITTINGS suggests that it was because he was ignorant of the existence of a trust fund on which he could have drawn
Part 2
From the public concert In
St. Clement Danes, London
by John Wilson
A small, quiet, nice, respectable orgy
(Second broadcast)
BENTHIEN STRING QUARTET
Ulrich Benthien (violin)
Rudolf Maria Muller (violin) Martin Ledig (viola)
Wolfram Hentschel (cello)
by F. A. LEA
Lecturer in the History of Ideas in the International Peoples' College at Elsinore, Denmark
Mr. Lea traces the qualities of Carlyle's masterpiece to his 6wn spiritual history. He compares Carlyle with Wordsworth but also discusses; his greatness to a romantic historian.
Second broadcast