BBC Northern Orchestra
Conductor, Charles Groves
Frank Merrick (piano)

Philip Toynbee talks about schoolmasters in English literature

Chopin Ballade No. 1, in C minor, played by Alexander Brailowsky on gramophone records

Full performance in German of the opera by Richard Strauss
(Recorded at the Hamburg Music Festival by courtesy of the Broadcasting Control Unit (Hamburg) B.A.O.R.)
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
The Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, Rudolf Prick) Conductor, Bertholde Lehmann

The action takes place in Vienna during the early years of the reign of Maria Theresa

7.15-8.30 Act 1: The Feldmarschallin's boudoir
8.45-9.45 Act 2: Herr von Faninal's house
9.55-11.0 Act 3: A private room in an inn

An Appraisal
First of three talks by Lionel Curtis, Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford

Act 2

Act 3

by Arnold Schonberg
Part 3
Mixed Chorus
Male choirs of the Princeton Glee. Fortnightly, and Mendelssohn Clubs
Philadelphia Orchestra
Conductor, Leopold Stokowski on gramophone records
Schönberg's 'Gurrelieder,' a setting of a cycle of poems by Jens Peter Jacobsen. is one of the last great products of nineteenth - century romanticism. Scored for four soloists, tour choirs, and a monster orchestra, the work carries the typical post-Wagnerian mania for the colossal to its extreme limit and, ironically enough, by the time the 'Gurrelieder ' was first performed-in 1913, twelve years after the bulk of the music had been written-Schönberg himself had led a violent reaction against both the romantic and the colossal in music. Very different in style from his later music, the ' Gurreiieder ' is among his most beautiful and most easily approachable compositions