The Wireless Orchestra, conducted by Stanford Robinson
Leonard Gowings (Tenor)
Marie Wilson (Violin)

Liadov's piece also has the title Valse Badinage. It was originally a little jest written for the Piano, and dedicated to the Composer's son. Then Liadov scored it for Piccolo, two Flutes, three Clarinets, Bells and Harp. The effect is very realistic.

As most people know, the plot of Humperdinck's most typical and charming work, Hansel and Gretel, is taken from Grimm's fairy tales. It tells of the witch who enticed boys and girls to her gingerbread house, and then cooked and ate them.
The Dream Music (also called Dream Pantomime) comes in the Second Act. Two children have lost their way in the forest. They fall asleep and dream that angels descend a golden staircase and move in procession around them. In Humperdinck's music to this scene we hear two leading themes, one a cradle-song and the other a hymn-like tune - a prayer.

Orchestra

Overture to the Ball - Sullivan
A Musical Box - Liadov
The Flight of the Bumble Bee - Rimsky-Korsakov

Leonard Gowings with Orchestra.
Recit, Deeper and Deeper Still (Jephtha) - Handel
Air 'Waft her angels' - Handel

Marie Wilson with Orchestra
Concerto in E Minor - Mendelssohn

Leonard Gowings with Piano
An Island Sheiling Song - arr. Kennedy-Fraser
Pleading - Elgar
Murmuring Breezes - Jensen

Orchestra
Egyptian Ballet - Luigini

Marie Wilson with Piano Minuet - Mozart
Viennese Caprice - Kreisler

Orchestra
Dream Pantomime ('Hansel and Gretel') - Humperdinck