Reginald Porter-Brown at the BBC theatre organ
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A gramophone miscellany
A talk by the Rev. Bryan Green , Rector of Birmingham
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by a doctor
George Hancock (bass-baritone)
Max Gilbert (viola)
3-An Ammunition Train in Greece Talk by Peter Fleming
In 1941 the British forces were retreating in Greece and a badly needed ammunition train was in danger of being left behind. Somebody thought he knew how to drive an engine. Peter Fleming describes the extent to which his belief was justified, and its consequences.
GRIEG
Records of his piano music
The Rev. Leslie Weatherhead speaks of Christ's endless ministry for man in the unseen world
The Litany (Tallis, five-part) Ante-Communion
The Lord's Prayer Collect for Purity
The Ten Commandments
Collects for Good Friday
The Epistle: Hebrews 10. w. 1-25
Jesu, meek and lowly (A. and M.
188)
The Gospel: St. John 19. w. 1-37 Nicene Creed (Wood in C minor) The Intercession
0 sacred head (S.P. 128) Collect and Blessing
BBC Singers
Organist. Dr. G. Thalben-Ball
Reader, Stuart Hibberd
Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F
(Bach): Busch Chamber Players
Romance in F. for violin and orchestra
(Beethoven): Gioconda de Vito (violin) "with the Philharmonia Orchestra. conducted by Alberto Erede
Variations on a Theme by Haydn
(Brahms): Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler on gramophone records
(piano)
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A record programme of favourite music, sung and played by world-famous artists of the past and present
A Meditation with hymns and music upon the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ
Conducted by the Rev. Canon C. W. Hutchinson , Vicar of St. Bartholomew's, Brighton
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
Max Salpeter (violin)
Read by the author
James Stephens
Abridged by Becky Cocking
Instalment 1
For the first time James Stephens is to read a book of his own on the air-the book that lifted him out of obscurity. Frank Swinnerton has said that ' his writing is first tale, then it is philosophy, then it is nonsense ... the effect is one of profound laughter.'
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Terry Devon and Tito Burns
Filippo, The Stargazers
Introduced by Wallas Eaton
Augmented Dance Orchestra Conducted by Stanley Black
Produced by Dennis Main Wilson
Margaret Pollard (soprano)
Moreton Street (baritone)
Choir of the Blackburn Music Society
(Chorus-Master,
Horace Tattersall )
Harold Dawber (organ)
BBC Northern Orchestra (Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conductor, Charles Groves
Gabriel Faur é was appointed choirmaster and assistant organist at the Church of the Madeleine, Paris, in 1877, when he was thirty-two. Later, in 1896, he succeeded Dubois as chief organist. It was there, in 1888, that his Requiem was performed for the first time; he had begun to write it two years before, shortly after the death of his father. the work is notable for its intimate character. There are no rhetorical effects; throughout there is a classic restraint which by no means excludes a warmth of feeling all the more moving because of its freedom from sentimentality. In the words of Nadia Boulanger, one of the most celebrated of his pupils, Faur6 ' understood religion after the fashion of the tender passages in the Gospel according to St. John. following St. Francis of Assist rather than St. Bernard or Bossuet. His voice seems to interpose itself between heaven and men; usually peaceful, quiet and fervent, sometimes grave and sad, but never menacing or dramatic.'
The Requiem is in seven movements, and the predominant key is D minor, giving place to the brightness of the major in the final consolatory In Paradisum. The Introit (' Rest eternal grant to them, 0 Lord ') leads to a short Kyrie (' Lord, have mercy upon us '). There follow the Offertory '(' 0 Lord, Jesu Christ , King of Glory, deliver the souls of the departed from the torments of hell and from the bottomless pit '); Sanctus (' Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Sabaoth '); Pie Jesu (' Merciful Lord Jesu, grant them rest '); Agnus Dei (' Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, grant them rest '); Libera me (' Deliver me. 0 Lord, from eternal death in that dread day when the heavens and the earth shall be moved '); and In Paradisum (' May angels bear thee up to Paradise ').
Harold Rutland
Six talks for Holy Week by Father Gordon Albion
5 — ' Love Abounding '
