AGNES GIEBEL (soprano)
MARGA HÖFFGEN (contralto)
ERNST HAEFLlGER (tenor)
GUSTAV NEIDLINGER (bass)
NEW PHILHARMONIA CHORUS
Chorus-Master, Wilhelm Pitz
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Bean
Conducted by Otto Klemperer
From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Part 1
Symphony No. 1, in C major
by MARTIN COOPER
Martin Cooper speaks on Schopenhauer's Maxims and Exhortations, in which the German philosopher displayed what he called his ' practical wisdom.'
Part 2
Symphony No. 9, in D minor
A poem in prose by John Lehmann
Readers (in order of speaking) Frank Duncan, Olive Gregg, Denis Goacher, John Lehmann
Partly reflective, partly autobiographical, partly dramatic. Mr. Lehmann's poem has for its themes the mythology and symbolism of the pagan and Christian worlds, in relation to his personal experience.
Five Preludes (1940) played by JULIAN BREAM (guitar) on a gramophone record
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