and forecast for farmers and shipping
Charles Williams and his Concert Orchestra
Dorothy Pouishnoff (piano)
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Alec Robertson
Contents:
Bach Bicentenary Commemoration: 3-' The Leipzig Cantor.' recorded by Trevor Harvey
' Ottorino Respighi (born July 9. 1879),' recorded by Boyd Neel
' The High Larynx Disability in Singing,' by E. Herbert-Caesari
Conducted by John Summerson
12.11 Books: Veronica Wedgwood
12.20 Radio: Stephen Bone
12.28 Art: Hugh Casson
12.37 Films: Connery Chappell
12.45 Theatre: Eric Keown
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Speakers from several countries introduced by Ralph Wightman
Singer, Erik Hesselberg
(with guitar)
Produced by David Thomson
Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 5, in E flat
(Emperor) played by Franz Osborn with the London" Symphony Orchestra
(Led by Lionel Bentley)
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
The programme, the' sixth in the series, also includes Kodaly's ' Summer Evening'
A programme of nineteen forgotten or little-known songs associated with the Midlands
Mary Lake (soprano) Ronald Bristol (tenor)
Owen Brannigan (bass)
BBC Midland Light Orchestra
(Leader, Frank Thomas )
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
Introduced by Francis Collinson
Production by Edward Livesey
The songs cover a wide range both in time and mood-folk songs, short ballads, children's songs, and an extract from the first English song cycle are included. Research and arrangements are by Francis Collinson.
(Leader, John Sharpe )
BBC Opera Chorus (Men's Voices)
(Trained by Alan G. Melville )
Conducted by Leo Wurmser Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
Trevor Anthony (bass)
Music of Mozart
Overture: Cosl fan tutte
Pamina's Aria (The Magic Flute)
Ah. my pretty brace of fellows (II
Seraglio)
Theme and variations from Serenade for thirteen wind instruments
March of the Priests (The Magic
Flute)
0 Isis and Osiris (The Magic Flute) Thou mayest learn to hate me (II
Seraglio)
Overture: Don Giovanni
Programme devised by Harold Neden
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(Leader, Laurance Turner )
Conductor, Sir John Barbirolli
Richard Strauss was twenty-five when he conducted the first performance of Don Juan , at. Weimar in 1889. 'It comes off beautifully,' he wrote to his father ... the sound was marvellous, of a gigantic glow and richness.' Based as it is on Lenau's version of the story, the tone poem depicts Don Juan as an idealist rather than a cynic; he is always seeking perfection in womanhood, but disillusion follows quickly upon possession. At the end disappointment and satiety overwhelm him and he allows himself to be killed in a duel. The exultant opening theme suggests the ardent passion of youth.
Dvorak's Symphony in G (known as No. 4, though it was the eighth that he wrote) bears the dedication: ' To the Bohemian Academy of Emperor Franz Joseph for the Encouragement of Art and Literature, in thanks for my election.' It was first performed in Prague in February 1890. Two months later it was p!ayed in London; and in the following year at Cambridge, when Dvorak received the honorary degree of Doctor of Music. It was also published in this country instead of in Germany. In view of these associations it became known as the ' English ' Symphony: a singularly unsuitable title. Even in the ' New World,' written four years later, there are passages which show that Dvorak had by no means forgotten his native land; in the Symphony in G he was clearly thinking of no other. The work, says a Czech writer, ' is a simple lyric, singing of the beauty of our country for the heart's consolation.' And how enchanting are the melodies it sings I Harold Rutland
Appeal on behalf of the Chalfont Colony for Epileptics, by Harry Holloway
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
At Chalfont Colony the National Society for Epileptics has endeavoured for sixty years to provide a way of life for sane epileptics unable to hold their own in the outside world.
Few people not in touch with this disease realise the depths of despair that beset epileptics and their relatives. Chalfont Colony, the largest of its kind in England, provides community life for more than five hundred men, women, and children. Busily employed in running their own village and farms, and in receiving training, education, and recreation, these people are able at the Colony to make a real contribution to the community, and in so doing achieve happiness and self-expression.
The Colony today consists of an estate of more than three hundred and fifty acres. Its members, whose ages range from five to eighty-three years, live in eighteen separate Homes-all buildings of a pleasant residential nature set in the Buckinghamshire countryside.
Harry Holloway , who is making this appeal, is himself a sufferer from epilepsy, and has lived and worked at Chalfont for twenty years.
by Richard Hughes
When his novel High Wind in Jamaica was first published, the author's observation of children's behaviour caused considerable controversy. In his talk tonight Richard Hughes turns his attention introspectively to the experiences of his own childhood.
Sonata in A (K.526) for violin and piano played by Frederick Grinke (violin) and Kendall Taylor (piano)
This, the last of Mozart's full-scale violin sonatas, was written in 1786, shortly before Don Giovanni. It is in the same key as one of his finest piano concertos (KA88), the Clarinet Quintet, and the Clarinet Concerto; and it has a still closer affinity with them, in that it shares something of their mellowness and maturity. There are three movements: Molto allegro, Andante, and Presto. Deryck Cooke
' Power from on high '
Psalm 147 Colossians 1. vv. 9-27
0 for a thousand tongues to sing (A and M. 522)
Isaiah 40, v. 31
