Calender's Band
Conducted by C. A. Waters
and forecast for farmers and shipping
and his Orchestra
'Elijah and Ahab'
Reading from 1 Kings 18, with comment by the Rev. E. H. Robertson
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Talk by Gladys Mann
(BBC recording)
Woolf Phillips and his Orchestra
Hazel Clare (contralto)
Kenneth Essex (viola)
Francis Elwick , this year's President of the Education Welfare Officers' National Association, talks about the welfare work of an Education Department
Records of his piano music
The strife is o'er, the battle done
(A. and M. 135; S.P. 147)
New Every Morning, page 29 Psalm 57 1 Peter 2, w. 1;10
For those we love within the veil
(S.P. 289)
Cecil Norman and the Rhythm Players
Directed by Harold C. Gee
(organ)
From St. Mark's Church, North Audley Street, London
(Donald Houston is appearing in ' The Cocktail Party ' at the New Theatre, London)
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Reports from Britain and overseas
Doris Hare 's record choice
Lunchtime scoreboard
BBC Welsh Orchestra
Conducted by Arwel Hughes
Leonard Brain (oboe)
A murder story for radio by Michael Clayton Hutton
(' Twenty Questions ' is broadcast by arrangement with Maurice Winnick )
' The Spanish Main'
A story of Sir Francis Drake by Max Kester
Music composed by Max Saunders
2— ‛ The Stowaway '
Singers :
Cecile Davies and Martin Boddey
A small orchestra and male voice chorus
Conducted by the composer
Production by Josephine Plummer
5.35 ' Algy and his adopted Children': Mary Patchett tells another story of her dogs Ajax, Ben, and Algy
5.50 Children's Hour Prayers conducted by John G. Williams
and forecast for farmers and shipping
The Eastbourne Girls’ Choir
Conductor, Edith Pearson
Solo violin, Tom Jenkins with Jack Byfield at the piano
Production by Glyn Jones
Jean Pougnet (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor,
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Mendelssohn—Brahms From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Mendelssohn composed the Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream at the age of seventeen, after reading a German translation of Shakespeare's immortal play. It vividly illustrates the scenes and characters, both fairy and mortal. The opening chords are associated with Oberon's realm, and the flitting, gossamer-like theme on the strings presents the fairies themselves, as they wander ' Over hill, over dale, thorough bush, thorough brier.'
Brahms' Violin Concerto, like his Second Symphony, was written at the favourite holiday resort, the village of PSrtschach where, in the composer's own words ' all the mountains round the blue lake are white with snow, while the trees are covered with delicate green.' In these idyllic surroundings Brahms, at the age of forty-five, at last felt able to fulfil his ambition of writing a work for his old friend Joseph Joachim. Originally the Concerto was to have been in four movements, but later the composer, with his usual modesty and self-criticism, wrote to Joachim: ' The middle movements are failures. I have written a feeble Adagio instead.' The ' feeble Adagio ' is, of course, the exquisitely lyrical movement which provides a point of repose between the monumental first movement and the exhilarating finale in Hungarian style.
Mendelssohn's ' Italian ' symphony was completed shortly after the composer had reached his twenty-fourth birthday and was first performed at a London Philharmonic Concert on May 13, 1833. The symphony remained unpublished during the composer's lifetime, and is therefore known as No. 4. though it preceded the ' Scotch ' symphony by nine years. Bearing this in mind. one can only marvel at its finished perfection. Julian Herbage
A series of eight talks by Fred Hoyle , Lecturer in Mathematics in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St. John's College
2−The Solar System: The Sun
A programme of recordings made this year at the International Eisteddfod held at Llangollen, North Wales
Introduced by Hywel Davies
