at the Organ of the Dominion
Theatre, Tottenham Court Road
Eva Turner (soprano) : Goodbye
(Tosti). 0 Lovely Night (Landon Ronald )
Frank Titterton (tenor) : Asthore.
Shelmerdene (Lozanne)
Elsie Suddaby (soprano) : Love's
Garden of Roses (Wood). A May Morning (Denza)
Richard Crooks (tenor) : Ah! may the red rose live always. Come where my love lies dreaming (Foster)
by Kathleen Frise-Smith (Northern Programme)
It is curious that the piano was Cesar Franck 's first and last love. In the full flush of youthful enthusiasm he wrote a number of piano pieces and then for nearly forty years the piano had no place in his scheme of things. However, at the age of sixty-two, realising a dearth of serious modem compositions for the piano, Franck set to work on several ambitious compositions to fill the gap. One of the finest was the ' Prelude, Choral, and Fugue ', which was first performed in 1885. Vincent d'Indy tells us that
' Franck started with the intention of simply writing a prelude and fugue in the style of Bach, but he soon took up the idea of linking these two movements together by a Chorale, the melodic spirit of which should brood over the whole work.'
W. P. Matthew
Marie Wilson String Quartet:
Quartet in G-1 Allegretto. 2 Lento. 3 Rondo: Allegro vivace (Box) Alfredo Casella (pianoforte) and the Pro Arte Quartet: Quintet—1 Agitato. 2 Andante. 3 Allegro (Ernest Bloch)
with Louise Hayward
by Angus Morrison
by Charles Dickens read by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley