Reginald New at the BBC theatre organ

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with his Orchestra

A talk for Holy Week by Professor John Foster of Glasgow University
5 — ' Crucified '
(St. Matthew 27, vv. 33-36)

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by a doctor

Overtures and Entr'actes played by Guy Daines and his Orchestra

Quartet in F minor, Op. 2 played by The English Piano Quartet:
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin)
Watson Forbes (viola) Vivian Joseph (cello) Edith Vogel (piano)

by Valerie Merck
A former actress recalls the heyday of the Vienna opera, when the locked gate of the gallery staircase held for her a fairy-like fascination - the promise of a new and exciting world.

Records of parts of his
Requiem Mass

from a sermon preached on Good Friday 1951 by Pasteur D'Espine , of the Reformer Church of Geneva

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, vv. 1-25
Jesus, grant me this (BBC Hymn
Book 517)
The Gospel: St. John 19, w. 1-37 Nicene Creed (Wood in C minor)
The Intercession
0 sacred head (BBC Hymn Book 86) Collect "and Blessing
BBC Singers
Organist. Dr. G. Thalben-Ball
Reader, Stuart Hibberd

79-Divers
Maxwell Knight introduces two speakers, James Fisher and G. K. Yeates
The programme is illustrated with recordings made in Shetland by Ludwig Koch , in Sweden by Radiotjaenst, and in the U.S.A. by Cornell University
Produced by Desmond Hawkins
(The recorded broadcast of January 27)

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A record programme of musical reminiscences in which you are invited to share by sending us personal memories and the tunes that bring them back to you

(Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conductor, John Hopkins
Reginald Paul (piano)
Mozart's Symphony No. 32, in G, was written in Salzburg in April 1779. In January of that year, a few days before his twenty-third birthday, Mozart reluctantly returned to his native town after his long stay in Paris and Mannheim. He was anxious to write a large-scale opera, but no opportunity presented itself. He meanwhile occupied his time by composing an operetta to a German libretto by the Salzburg trumpeter Schachtner. The score of this, lacking an overture and a final chorus, was discovered after his death and published, with the title Zaide (the name of one of the characters), in 1838. The late Dr. Alfred Einstein believed that Symphony No. 32, which is in one movement, was intended to be the Overture to this operetta.
Ildebrando Pizzetti. the most eminent of the older generation of Italian composers, was born at Parma in 1880. As its title implies, his Canti della stagione alta ' (' Songs of the High Season ') is a glowing and colourful work. It was written in 1930, and its three movements afford plenty of scope for the solo pianist and also for the orchestra. The second movement, marked Adagio, leads without a break into the final Rondo. Harold Rutland

' The Toy Lamb': a story by Winifred Parsons , told by David
' And Pilate washed his hands'
A sermon in sound by Joseph McCulloch
Produced by David Davis
' When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent ot the blood of this iust person: see ye to it.'

Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England

Ring up the Curtain
A record from a popular opera
On Such a Night
An account of a notable occasion
This Swept the Town
A record from a formerly popular opera
One Night at the Opera
A reminiscence by a distinguished personality
Something Old, Something New
A historic record and a newly issued record
Do You Like Opera?
An interview with an opera-goer and Something unexpected

A play cycle on the Life of Our Lord by Dorothy L. Sayers
11—King of Sorrows
A new production by Peter Watts

(Leader, Laurance Turner )
Conductor, Sir John Barbirolli
Janet Craxton (oboe)
The Good Friday Music comes from the last Act of Parsifal. The scene is one of pastoral calm outside the hut of Gurnemanz, the aged guardian of the Grail. A strange knight appears in black armour. Gurnemanz tells him it is Good Friday and bids him lay aside his arms. The knight is then recognised as Parsifal, now returned as the Deliverer, having overcome Klingsor and regained the sacred spear. Gurnemanz anoints him King of the Grail while Kundry, now pemtent and set free from enchantment, washes the dust of his long wanderings ' from his feet. Parsifal baptizes her and gives her assurance of forgiveness. Most of the music that we hear is played while Parsifal gazes entranced at the beauty of the meadows and the flowers around him. Gumemanz tells him that this is the magic of Good Friday, when the earth appears at its loveliest, in gratitude to the Redeemer.
The pastoral note is also sounded in Vaughan Williams ' Oboe Concerto, though the general mood is lively. The work, written for Leon Goossens in 1944, comprises a ' Rondo Pastorale '; a Minuet and Musette suggesting ' Flora and the country green and a fast-moving Scherzo (with a slow epilogue) for finale.
It is not inappropriate today to recall that the last movement, the Passacaglia, of Brahms' Fourth Symphony is based on a variant of a theme used by Bach in his Cantata No. ISO, ' Lord for thee my spirit longs.* Harold Rutland

Great Britain v. Norway
White's eighteenth move (Great Britain)
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