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Edward Walker (flute)
Alan Whittaker (oboe)
Bernard Walton (clarinet)
Charles Gregory (horn)
Gilbert Vinter (bassoon)
In his youth, Rossini wrote a number of string quartets and a series of six quartets for flute, clarinet, horn, and bassoon. The quartet in F reveals the composer in his most naive mood. Here we shall look in vain for counterpoint, or even elementary part-writing ; instead we find first one instrument and then another declaiming operatically, with all the airs and graces of a prima donna, while the others support the soloist with a tum-tum accompaniment of a primitive kind. As a musical curiosity this quartet is worth reviving, although it cannot be taken seriously as a contribution to' chamber music.

Contributors

Flute:
Edward Walker
Oboe:
Alan Whittaker
Clarinet:
Bernard Walton
Horn:
Charles Gregory
Bassoon:
Gilbert Vinter

sung by BBC Singers (B)
Sybilla Marshall ; Marjorie Avis ; Winifred Downer ; Gertrude Wood ; Rene Soames ; Leonard Hodgson ;
Victor Utting ; Victor Harding
Conducted by Trevor Harvey
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Contributors

Unknown:
Sybilla Marshall
Unknown:
Marjorie Avis
Unknown:
Winifred Downer
Unknown:
Gertrude Wood
Unknown:
Rene Soames
Unknown:
Leonard Hodgson
Unknown:
Victor Utting
Conducted By:
Trevor Harvey

from a West-Country cathedral
Order of Service
Versicles and Responses Psalm xxviii
First Lesson: Lamentations iii, 22-27 Magnificat (Kelway in B minor)
Second Lesson: St. John xv, 17-24
Nunc Dimittis (Kelway in B minor) Creed and Collects
Anthem: Hosanna to the Son of David (Gibbons)
Prayers
Jesu, meek and lowly (E.H. 416) Blessing

Settings of Shakespeare:
It was a lover and his lass ; Under the greenwood tree ; 0 mistress mine ; Come away, death ; and Blow, blew, thou winter wind
Quilter
Settings of Robert Louis Stevenson :
Bright is the ring of words ; and The roadside fire (from Songs of Travel, Set 1) Vaughan Williams sung by Frederick Sharpe (baritone)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Baritone:
Frederick Sharpe

by Pergolesi
Nottingham Oriana Choir
Strings of the Glyndeboume Orchestra
(by permission of John Christie , Esq.)
Leader, George Stratton
Conductor, Roy Henderson
Isobel Baillie (soprano)
Astra Desmond (contralto) from a church in the Midlands
Considering that Giovanni Battista Pergolesi died at the age of twenty-six the great excellence of his many compositions proves him to have been not only industrious, but a composer of such high promise that his early death robbed music of at probable great master.
Of his operas and oratorios, numbering fifteen, the best known is the delightful comic opera La Serva Padrona, and of his sacred music, a great quantity, the most valued is this celebrated Stabat Mater. It is thought that Pergolesi was no more than twenty when he wrote it, his promised remuneration being ten ducats which, however, seems not even to have been paid.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Christie
Leader:
George Stratton
Conductor:
Roy Henderson
Soprano:
Isobel Baillie
Contralto:
Astra Desmond
Unknown:
Giovanni Battista
Unknown:
Stabat Mater.

A new sketch of Glasgow family life by Helen W. Pryde
Produced by W. Farquharson Small
The McFlannels are in the main no better and no worse than their neighbours: They are good citizens. So it is not surprising that they have joined in the national ' Grow More Food ' campaign. Like a great many people they are new to gardening and their trials and troubles will find a sympathetic response from weary backs and blistered hands.

Contributors

Unknown:
Helen W. Pryde
Produced By:
W. Farquharson

Piano Trio in B flat played by The Kamaran Trio:
Marjorie Hayward (violin)
Antonia Butler (cello)
Kathleen Markwell (piano)
Whereas Schubert was a pioneer of the romantic movement as a song composer, even from the early part of his career when he wrote ' The Erl-King', ', it was not until the last three or four years of his life that he began to apply a romantic technique, particularly as regards harmony, to classical instrumental forms ; for example, in the Piano Trios in B flat and E flat, composed in 1827 for the Bocklet-Schuppanzigh-Linke Trio, with which Schubert was at that time closely associated. Both works are extremely romantic in conception, and if we agree to Schumann's description of the E flat being ' passive, feminine, lyrical' and the B flat being ' active, masculine, dramatic ', they should be considered complementary.

Contributors

Violin:
Marjorie Hayward
Cello:
Antonia Butler
Piano:
Kathleen Markwell

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