Burleske played by Elly Ney (piano)
Berlin State Opera Orchestra
Conducted by Willem van Hoogstraten on gramophone records
Talk by Philip Hope-Wallace
The speaker examines the operatic supply and demand and the kind of service the opera enthusiast receives, with special reference to some recent successes and failures in London.
Sonata No. 8, in G
Sonata No. 7, in D minor played by Winifred Roberts (violin)
Geraint Jones (harpsichord)
The Perennial Trouble Spot
Talk by Elizabeth Barker
Miss Barker is the author of Macedonia: its Place in Balkan Power Politics. She has been studying the subject for many years and has visited the Balkans frequently since 1932.
or ' Love in the Stocks *
A romantic ballad opera in two acts
Words by Harold Child
Music by Vaughan Williams
BBC Opera Chorus
BBC Opera Orchestra (Leader, John Sharpe )
Conductor, Stanford Robinson
Presented by Mark Lubbock
Narrator. Patrick Troughton
Repetiteur. Leo Wurmser
Scene: A small town in the Cotswolds in the early nineteenth century
Act 1
A fair in an open field near the town. Morning, April 30
W. A. C. H. Dobson reviews the recent book by Arthur Waley on the Chinese poet who lived from A.D. 772 to 846
The speaker is Lecturer in Chinese to the University of Oxford
Act 2
The market-place in the town. Early Tuesday morning, May 1
Written by Robert Kemp
Production by W. Farquharson Small
Lyric Suite played by the Vegh String Quartet:
Sandor Vegh (violin) Sandor Zoldy (violin) Georges Janzer (viola)
Paul Szabo (cello)
Talks by Sir Hubert Henderson and Nicholas Kaldor
The speakers give independent points of view on the present economic situation. Sir Hubert Henderson is Professor of Political Economy at Oxford; Nicholas Kaldor is a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.
Song-cycle by Gabriel Fauré
Poems by Verlaine
Suzanne Danco (soprano)
Ernest Lush (piano)
Une Sainte en son auréole; Puisque I'aube grandit; La lune blanche luit dans les bois; J'allais par des chemins perifides; J'ai presque peur. en vérité; Avant que tu ne t en ailles; Done, ce sera par un clair jour d'ete; N'eat-ce pas?: L'hiver a cessé
