Part 1 Personal: critic's task Egon Wellesz as musician and teacher. Part 2 Composers: Giacomo Meyerbeer Carl Maria von Weber Scriabin and Russian Renaissance Sergei Prokofiev Gounod's influence on French music Faure and Hellenistic element in French music. Part 3 world of Music - articles from The Daily Telegraph: styles - art nouveau, pastoralism, pastiche and eclecticism, neo-classicism, baroque opera - The Fiery Angel, Fidelio, Simone Boccanegra, Cosi fan tutte politics and avant-garde - composers and influence of politics, for people - or the people, when theatre takes over from music composers and musicians - Clement Harris, Edward Dent, Hubert Parry, Modest Mussorgsky, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Francois Couperin, Maurice Ravel, Albert Roussel, George Frideric Handel critical considerations - surprise, novelty, values that pass, humour, competitions, projection in performance, Italy. Part 4 Songs and singers: Schumann's songs Claire Croiza Pauline Viardot. Part 5 On air - contributions to BBC: three broadcast operas - Les Dialogues des Carmelites, Iphigenie en Tauride, Orfeo short thoughts - understanding music, shape and sound, words into music, fast and slow inner thoughts - acquiescence of Jesus. Part 6 Poets and poetry: music in German Novelle, E.T.A. Hoffman, Joseph von Eichendorff, Eduard Morike, Giacomo Leopardi. Part 7 Religious thinkers: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon, Friedrich von Hugel, Soren Kierkegaard.