Exercises for men and women
TCHAIKOVSKY
Gramophone records of some of his songs and instrumental music
Short morning prayers
' The Radio Doctor '
Conductor. Rae Jenkins.
Gramophone records
at the theatre organ
from page 109 of ' New Every Morning ' and page 28 of ' Each Returning Day.' Carol: In dulci jubilo; Psalm 36, w. 5-12; 1 John 1. w. 1-9; Beloved, let us love
Music of Berlioz and Wagner, on records
with his Orchestra, and artists
Veronica Mansfield (mezzo-soprano); Leonard Cassini (piano)
(Christmas edition). War-workers in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, combine in a special Christmas entertainment. Produced by Victor Smythe , in collaboration with Ursula Eason , Nan Davies. and Howard M. Lockhart
Variety on records
(Chatham Division)
Conducted by Capt. Thomas Francis , Director of Music, Royal Marines
Regimental March of H.M. Royal
Marines: A Life on the Ocean Wave
Conducted by Dr. George Thalben-Ball
Jack Simpson and his Sextet
'A Variety mixture from Wales,' with Bruce Dargavel ;- the Lyrian Singers; ' The Adventure of Tommy Trouble ,' by E. Eynon 'Evans; David Griffiths ; Dai's Letter to the Force*. Produced by Mai Jones
' The Cat That Walked By HimseU'
Adapted from Rudyard Kipling 's ' Just-So ' story and produced by Maurice Brown
by Michael Pertwee , produced by James Mageean
Hanes taith trwy'r wlad hon. ean Hywel D. Roberts. (Talk in Welsh)
Christmas Holiday ' Regional Round.' Have pencils and paper handy, and join in with children all over the country to answer the seasonable questions posed by Derek McCulloch ('Mac')
' Jerusalem Now': a Christmas talk by Evan John
with the Augmented Dance Orchestra under the direction of Stanley Black. Introduced by Jimmy Dyrenforth
Douglas Houghton describes some of the out-of-the-way questions that came into his post-bag in 1944-and the answers he gave them
Handel 'Messiah' Part 1 from the Town Hall, Huddersfield
This week's 'Starred' Programme
A special broadcast performance of Handel's great oratorio
From the Town Hall, Huddersfield
In Messiah, it is safe to say. there is music that suits the tastes of a greater number of people than any other work of its kind. Certainly more people in this country listen with pleasure to its huge choruses and melodious arias than to Bach's or Beethoven s great Masses or even to Mendelssohn's Elijah The position of Messiah is secure, a seemingly immutable standard of public taste. And for all the badly conceived performances 'we give, with too many instruments and choruses too unwieldy, so that we seem to deny Handel's right to know how his music should sound, we still come back to Messiah each time with surprise and fresh delight. Its riches are inexhaustible.
After the first performance in Dublin in 1742, Messiah did not, as has sometimes been supposed, succeed in England. One reason was that the middle-class conscience had lately been stirred by the fulminations of preachers and writers against the stage Handel, as a matter of course, produced Messiah in the opera house when he returned to London. Such an association of so sacred a subject with the theatre may well have told in the oratorio's disfavour. It was not until Handel gave the first of his annual performances at the Foundling Hospital in 1750 that Messiah began to be popular.
In this, the greatest of all English concert oratorios, an immense variety of emotion is expressed and musical devices of the utmost richness and subtlety are to be found within its three sections portraying respectively the Birth, the Death and the Preaching of the Gospel, the Resurrection and the Life hereafter — Scott Goddard.
Handel 'Messiah' Part 2 from the Town Hall, Huddersfield
99—' Always the Lady," written and read' by Mabel Constanduros
Naidheachdan, seanchas, dain is orain (Gaelic miscellany)
and his Quintet
and his Latin-American Orchestra, with Santiago Lopez
