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Jack Coles and his Orchestre Modeme
Four Hands in Harmony :
Tony Lowry and Clive Richardson at two pianos
Overture, King Lear (Berlioz): Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham. Bt.
Violin Concerto No. 1, in G minor
(Bruch): Ida Haendel (violin), and the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Rafael Kubelik
Tone Poem. The Garden of Fand
(Baa;): Royal 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': Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat, by Trevor Harvey
' Operatic Records.' by Mark Lubbock Miscellaneous Records for May,' by Martin Cooper
Conducted by James Laver
12.11 Art: Howard Robertson 1220 Films: Dilys Powell
12.28 Theatre: Ivor Brown
12.37 Books: Walter Allen
12.45 Radio: Giles Romilly
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From the Lower Vale of Usk
G. V. Wynne-Jones introduces Capt. Geoffrey Crawshay. the Rev. C. R. Gower-Rees , Margaret Gower-Rees . Wing-Commander Robin Haworth-Booth , Harold Horsington. Alderman William Horsington, and Capt. E. H. G. Trumper
Music by Harold Horsington and William Horsington
(handbells) and the Garth Players
Programme compiled by Gethyn Stoodley-Thomas
Produced by Elwyn Evans
by Sir Walter Scott made into a three-part radio play by James R. Gregson
Production by Rex Tucker in the BBC's North of England studios
' The Mermaid's Picture ': story by Julia Clark , told by David Davis followed by ' Lazy Lawrence '
A play by Barbara Sleigh from the story by Maria Edgeworth
Production by David Davis
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Songs of the birds from a Kent wood, with Henry Douglas-Home to identify the birds and Wynford Vaughan Thomas to describe the scene
Appeal on behalf of German Educational Reconstruction, by the President, Sir Ernest Barker , F.B.A., D. Litt. , LL.D.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
German Educational Reconstruction, a Society for promoting Anglo-German educational relations, was founded in 1942. Its first President was Eleanor Rathbone, and its primary purpose was to save from frustration those German teachers who had sought refuge in this country from the menace of Hitler and to offer them a full life. When the war was over, German Educational Reconstruction aimed at breaking through the cultural isolation from which German teachers had suffered for so long, and among other things dispatched to Germany some sixty tons of books and other educational material such as pencils, chalk, and exercise books. German Educational Reconstruction has also invited some six hundred representative educators, ranging from ministers of education to kindergarten teachers, to spend periods of about six weeks in this country for study, observation, and consultation with their British colleagues; while recently twelve German university teachers of history were brought to this country for a ten-day conference in Oxford with British university teachers.
A series of talks in which Colin Wills tells the story of his travels in the four British Colonies of West Africa, a journey he made specially for the BBC
3-' The Shrine, the Mine. 'and the Reading Room '
In this talk. Colin Wills speaks of Southern Nigeria: of the mysterious shrines at Ife, the Mine at Enugu where the 1949 riots broke out, and of the ' reading room ' -the symbol of community development with its centre in the Udi district.
(Leader, Reginald Whitehouse )
Conductor, Maurice Miles
Shulamith Shafir
(piano)
From the Town Hall, Leeds
Brahms' Second Symphony was the means of effecting a reconciliation 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 by the Worthersee in the Austrian Alps, 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! '
In Arthur Bliss ' Piano Concerto there are memorable themes, captivating rhythms, colourful orchestration, and a particularly brilliant part for the soloist. The work is dedicated to the people of the U.S.A. It was commissioned by the British Council for the British Week at the New York World's Fair in 1939, and first performed in Carnegie Hall by the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult , with Solomon as the soloist.
It is designed on a gigantic scale.
Tremendously exciting, with heartening melodies and an expressive slow movement, it has the incisive rhythms, the colour, and the sense of movement that have made Arthur Bliss so successful a composer of music for the ballet.
' Christ is Risen '
Psalm 111 Colossians 3. vv. 1-17
Alleluia! Hearts to heav'n and voices raise (A. and M. 137)
1 Corinthians 15, vv. 20-22
