String Quartet in D
Op. 6 No. 1 played by the New Italian Quartet on gramophone records

Talk by Benedict Nicolson
Last of the series of talks on English and French writings on the fine arts of the nineteenth century
See also tonight at 10.45
As an intellectual on the look-out for novelty Huysmans was keenly interested in the latest developments in painting. In the early 1880s he noted- down his impressions of the young and obscure, attracted by their fantastic and exquisite sensibility.

by Moray McLaren and Lennox Milne

Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
Colin Horsley (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, George Stratton )
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Part 1

John Summerson, F.S.A., A.R.I.B.A., analyses some of the qualities that he finds in houses he considers beautiful

Part 2

reads a selection of his own poetry

Settings of poems by Goethe
Anhe Wood (contralto)
John Kentish (tenor)
Frederick Stone (piano)
Wandrers Nachtlied
Mailied Elfenliedchen
Im Vorubergehn Liebliches Kind Inneres Wuhlen
Sieh mich, Heil'ger; Erster Verlust Gefunden

A selection of passages translated and introduced by Benedict Nicolson
Read by Alan Wheatley

Sonata in B flat (K.454) Sonata in A (K.526) played by Max Rostal (violin)
Franz Osborn (piano)