A Pot-Pourri by Julius Buerger

The BBC Chorus (Section C) and The BBC Theatre Orchestra
Conducted by Stanford Robinson

Music knows no national frontiers, yet folk music almost invariably is as characteristic as a flag. Fascinating music it is too, full of melody and rhythm, and expressive of the soil and the joys and pains of love. Dr. Buerger has collected the folk music of eleven countries : England, Italy, Germany, Czechoslovakia, France, Poland, Norway, Spain, Austria, Russia and Hungary, and in this programme, which was first broadcast on May 3 and 4, 1936, he has welded this medley of tunes into an hour's pot-pourri. An interesting feature of this broadcast is that the songs will be sung in the language of their origin.

'A Festival of Folk Music' will be broadcast again tomorrow in the Regional programme ari.0.