Ken Beaumont and his Sextet
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Jack Coles and his Orchestre Moderne
A talk by the Rev. Austen Williams of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
and forecast for farmers and shipping
and his Orchestra
Light music played by Peter Haysom and Alan Wayne
(two pianos)
Eugene Pini (violin)
Gregori Tcherniak (balalaika) accompanied by Geoffrey Sisley (guitar)
at the piano
and his Orchestra with Max Diggan (tenor)
Christ, whose glory fills the skies (A. and M. 7; S.P. 26)
New Every Morning (revised) 87 Psalm 100 (Broadcast Psalter) Acts 19, vv. 8-20
Lead. kindly light (A. and M 266;
S.P. 554)
Band of the Grenadier Guards
Conducted by Captain Douglas A. Pope
Director of Music
by Elizabeth, Countess von Arnim (author of ' Elizabeth and her German Garden')
Abridged by Hilton Brown
Read by Frank Duncan
Part 7
In which Princess Priscilla begins her ministrations to the poor of Symford-to the delight of the poor, but to the dismay of certain others.
Barbara Woohnore (soprano)
Max Gilbert (viola)
Clifton Helliwell (piano)
Syd Dean and his Band
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Harry Davidson and his Orchestra with Ernest Davies
Master of Ceremonies,
A. J. Latimer
Script written and programme introduced by Freddy Grisewood
Lunchtime scoreboard
at the BBC theatre organ
Anona Winn , Daphne Padel , Jack Train , and Richard Dimbleby ask all the questions; and Stewart MacPherson knows (almost) all the answers
The Gustav Egerstam Orchestra
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Jerry Desmonde introduces
Michael O'Dwyer
Bronwen Jones
Anne Wild
Len Reed
BBC Revue Orchestra
Script by Roy Bradford
Produced by Eric Spear
Jean Pougnet (violin)
Zara Nelsova (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
Brahms
Concerto in A minor, for violin. cello, and orchestra
8.17 app. Symphony No. 2. in D
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
After being firm fnends for many years, Brahms and Joachim became estranged about 1880. and it was Brahms' Double Concerto that brought them together again. Written at Thun in Switzerland in the summer of 1887. the Concerto W his last orchestral work, first performed at Cologne in October of that year, with Joachim and Hausmann as the soloists and Brahms himself conducting. '
Brahms' Second Symphony, written ten years before the Double Concerto, was also the means of effecting a reconciliation; this time between the composer and his native city of Hamburg. In 1862 he had been passed over, as a prospective conductor of the Hamburg Philharmonic Society, in favour of his friend Stockhausen; and this rebuff caused him eventually to leave the city and take up residence in Vienna, where his Second Symphony was given for the first time in 1877. But when he conducted the work at Hamburg in the following year, at the fiftieth anniversary of the Philharmonic Society (with Joachim as leader of the orchestra), he was accorded so great an ovation that all past injuries were forgotten. Written at Portschach, a village in Southern Austria, the Symphony (to quote the words of a friend of Brahms) is ' all rippling streams, blue sky, sunshine, and cool green shadows. How beautiful it must be at Portschach!'
Harold Rutland
by Christopher Marlowe
Stephen Williams writes on page 3
Barcarolle Op. 60
Impromptu in A flat. Op. 29
Study in C sharp minor. Op. 10 No. 4 played by Angus Morrison (piano)