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Queen's Hall Light Orchestra
Conductor, Sidney Torch and Charles Smart (organ)
Dream Music (Alcina) (Handel): Paris
Conservatoire Orchestra, conducted by Felix Weingartner
Piano Concerto No. 1, in G minor
(Mendelssohn): Eiieen Joyce (piano) with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Anatole Fistoulari
Symphony No. 6. in C (Schubert):
London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham. Bt. on gramophone records
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced this week by Julian Herbage
Record Review
' Old and New': a comparison, by Martin Cooper
' Operatic Records,' by Mark Lubbock ' Miscellaneous Records for February,' by Trevor Harvey
Five experts on films, theatre, books, radio, and art
Conducted by Basil Wright
12.11 Theatre: Eric Keown
12.20 Books: William Plomer
12.28 Radio: Giles Romilly
12.37 Art: J. M. Richards
12.45 Films: C. A. Lejeune
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Listeners' questions about the countryside answered by Eric Hobbis , Maxwell Knight , and Ralph Wightman
Question-Master, Jack Longland
Produced by Bill Coysh
Questions for this programme should be sent (on a postcard, please) to Country Questions, BBC. Bristol
A new play for broadcasting by Eden Phillpotts
The action takes place at Lavender Cottage, Tavybridge, and the office of Messrs. Wilson and Harding, solicitors, in London
Produced by Owen Reed in the BBC's West of England studios
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(A new production of the broadcast on May 10, 1949)
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
In 1892 Debussy conceived the idea of providing a musical illustration of Mallarmc's eclogue ' L'Apres-midi d'un Faune.' He spent two years on his task; and the result, first heard at a concert in Paris in 1894, may be looked upon as the beginning of modem music. In it the old classical basis of tonality is undermined; the harmonies are kaleidoscopic, and wisps of melody are left for the most part undeveloped. The whole is dreamy and voluptuous, a tit musical counterpart of a poem that describes (or rather suggests) the wayward thoughts and desires of a faun as he lies half asleep in the heat of a Sicilian afternoon.
* Let us refresh ourselves with the wealth of ideas which flow from this precious work,* said Schumann in a famous article on Schubert's great C major Symphony. He it was who discovered the manuscript score of the work at the house of Ferdinand Schubert , the composer's brother, in Vienna. He sent it to Mendelssohn, who conducted it for the first time at Leipzig in 1839, eleven years after Schubert's death.
Five years later, when Mendelssohn re- " hearsed the work in London, for a Philharmonic concert, the finale was greeted with derision by the players, and the work was withdrawn from the programme. It was during the fifties and sixties of the last century (and due largely to the enthusiasm of Sir George Grove ) that the Symphony gradually came to be acknowledged as one of the supreme masterpieces of music.
Harold Rutland
' The Word of God '
Psalm 119. vv. 41-48
St. Luke 8, vv. 4-15
Lord. thy word abideth (A. and M.
243)
St. Matthew 4. v. 4
