The Wireless Orchestra, conducted by John Ansell
Gaby Valle (Soprano); Silvio Sideli (Baritone)

The Conductor-Composer-'Cellist, Mancinelli (1848-1921), for a few years directed the Covent Garden Orchestra, and afterwards that of the Metropolitan Opera House at New York. He wrote several Operas, an Oratorio and a Cantata (both of which were produced at the Norwich Festival), and incidental music to Cossa's play Cleopatra. From this we are to hear a March.
THE busy Rossini, with the twenty Operas he wrote in eight years, between 1815 and 1823, contrived to score a great many bull's-eyes. The Thieving Magpie, which came out the year after The Barber, had a very poor libretto, based on one of the distant relations of the 'Jackdaw of Rheims' story.
The Overture, with its exciting Drum-roll opening, is one of the most brilliant of all Rossini's operatic preludes. It was long the Italians' first favourite among all such pieces.

THE GOOD-HUMOURED LADIES is a Ballet produced by Diaghilev's Russian company in 1919. It is based on a plot of Goldoni and on music of Domenico Scarlatti, the Harpsichord virtuoso and composer of much music for his instrument. Most of the music for the Ballet came from the keyboard 'Sonatas' of Scarlatti, Tommasini making some additions in the style of the older composer.