('The Rose-Bearer')
Opera in three acts by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Music by Richard Strauss
(sung in German)
, and A little black boy, footmen, guests Chorus of the Hamburg State Opera
(Chorus-Master, Gunther Hertel )
Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Leopold Ludwlg Produced by Gunther Rennert
From the King's Theatre, Edinburgh Scene: Vienna in the 18th century during the reign of Maria Theresa
Act 1
The boudoir of the Princess

Talk by Norman Nicholson
After reading Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata Mr. Nicholson found that Jerusalem was confused in his mind with Millom in Cumberland, where he lives. Looking across the Duddon estuary to Millom on the opposite shore he saw the landscape not as it appeared to Wordsworth but as essentially heroic.
(The recorded broadcast of Jan. 16)

Act 2
The hall in the house of Faninal

Talk by Steven Runciman
In the second of a series of seven talks on Islam, Steven Runciman describes the conditions of its birth and swift expansion.

Act 3
A private room at an inn

Herbert Read chooses and Introduces a number of poems
Read by Hallam Fordham

Four Impromptus, Op. 17 played by Margaret Kitchin (piano)
Early in 1950 Fricker began to work on the first of his Four Impromptus, the other three being written at various times until January 1952, when the set was completed. Although he composed no solo music for piano between the Three Preludes, Op. 1, and the Fourlmpromptus
(which are to be broadcast this evening for the first time) his style of piano-writing is highly individual and distinctive, taking full advantage of the freedom of form and tempo usually associated with this genre. The four pieces are dedicated respectively to Hans Alexander Kaul , Peter Stadlcn , Hans Block , and Margaret Kitchin.
Denis Stevens

A group of four talks
4— ̒The Changed Novel ̓ by David Daiches
University Lecturer in English Literature at Cambridge
David Daiches speaks about changes that have taken place over the past thirty or forty years in the criticism of fiction.
(The recorded broadcast of Aug. 30)

The Amadeus String Quartet:
Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin)
Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
Suzanne Rozsa (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) William Pleeth (cello)
Thurston Dart (harpsichord)
Fantasias a 4: No. 4, No. 6, No. 9 Pavan for three violins and cello Fantasia on a ground In Nomine a 6 (The recorded broadcast of June 17)