String Quartets played by the AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbort Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
Part 1
Quartet in C minor. Op. 13
No. 4
8.23* Quartet In A minor,
Op. 132
The first of six programmes recorded in association with K.R.O. Hilversum at public concerts given in Amsterdam during the autumn of last year.

An anthology of the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
Compiled with a commentary by J. M. COHEN
In July 1936, when the Generals' revolt broke out, very few writers, intellectuals, and politicians outside Spain were interested in the country's affairs. Spanish writers themselves remained aloof from actuality. Within a few weeks the intellectual world was committed, principally on the side of the Republic. This programme pursues the course of the war as reflected in the writings in prose and verse of those whose island-privacy was broken by the bitter struggle which ended twenty-five years ago.
Readers:
William Fox , Denis Goacher
Marius Goring , Carleton Hobbs Molly Rankin , Andrew Sachs and Alan Wheatley
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS

Part 2
Quartet in G major. Op. It
No. 2

EDWARD LOCKSPEISER discusses
Romain Rolland as a historian of music and examines his recently published correspondence
He talks In particular about Rolland's relations with Richard Strauss.