Listings
: ' DIARMUID AND GRAINNE'
A radio play by Padraic FallonMusic composed by Elizabeth Poston conducted by Douglas Robinson
(Continued in next column)
Production by Frederick Bradnum
During the Interval (3.50-4.0 app.):
C. P. E. Bach
Three Sonatas for wind instruments played by the London Baroque Ensemble
Conductor. Karl Haas on gramophone records
Contributors
: 'A MAY NIGHT'
Opera in three acts by Rimsky-Korsakov sung in Russian: on recordsCast in order of singing:
Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre Academy
Conducted BY VASILI NEBOLISIN
The action takes place in Little Russia, near Dikanka, during Whitsun week
Act 1
A village street, in front of Hanna's cottage
Contributors
: THE POOR RELATION AT TRAFALGAR SQUARE
Lord Radcliffe, G.B.E., speaks on the Report ' National Gallery: 1938-54 ': A MAY NIGHT'
Acr 2Scene 1: The village headman's house
Scene 2: A village street, in front of the scribe's cottage
Act 3: The lakeside
: THE MAL DU SIECLE'
Three talks by Robert Baldick , D.Phil.Lecturer in Modern Languages at University and Pembroke Colleges,
Oxford
2-Spleen and Disillusion
In the second of his three talks on pessimism in nineteenth-century French literature Dr. Baldick deals with the phase of ' realist disillusionment ' which developed after the revolutions of 1830 and 1848.
Contributors
: BEETHOVEN
Quartet in B flat. Op. 18 No. 6 Quartet in F, Op. 135 played by the Amadeus String Quartet:Norbert Brainin. Siegmund Nissel
Peter Schidlof, Martin Lovett
Contributors
: A TIME TO RECALL
A talk by Michael Tippett on the Mozart bicentenaryAlso this week: ' The Birth of an Opera/ t programme about 'The Marriage of Figaro ' (Monday and Wednesday); a concert from the Royal Festival Hall (Tuesday); * Idomeneo * from Salzburg (Friday); Mass in C minor (Saturday).
Contributors
: « MAISIE'
A literary invention by V. S. PritchettProduced by Rayner Heppenstall with Angela Clare , Gladys Spencer and Zena Walker
Contributors
: THE ORIGIN OF THE ETRUSCANS
by Sir Gavin de Beer, F.R.LDirector, British Museum
(Natural History)
Who were the Etruscans? Were they the original inhabitants of Italy, or did they come from Asia Minor? Sir Gavin de Beer shows how science can be turned to answer this and other questions.
Contributors
: HERBERT HOWELLS
Sonata No. 3, in E minor, Op. 38 played by Alan Loveday (violin)Leonard Cassint (piano)
Contributors
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