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with Hans Leygraf (piano)
Scapino: A Comedy Overture
(Walton): Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by the composer
Intermezzo from A Midsummer
Night's Dream (Mendelssohn): Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, conducted by Eduard van Beinum
Piano Concerto No. 2, in D minor
(Stenhammar): Hans Leygraf with the Goteborg Radio Orchestra, conducted by Sixten Eckerberg
Symphony No. 3. in F (Brahms):
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, conducted by George Szell on gramophone records

Contributors

Piano:
Hans Leygraf
Conducted By:
Eduard Van Beinum
Unknown:
Hans Leygraf
Conducted By:
George Szell

Five experts on films, theatre, books, radio, and art
Conducted by Roger Manvell
Art: R. Furneaux Jordan
Films: Edgar Anstey Theatre: Ivor Brown
Books: Alan Pryce-Jones
Radio: Freda Bruce Lockhart

Contributors

Conducted By:
Roger Manvell
Unknown:
R. Furneaux Jordan
Unknown:
Edgar Anstey
Unknown:
Ivor Brown
Unknown:
Alan Pryce-Jones
Unknown:
Freda Bruce Lockhart

New London Orchestra
(Leader, Leonard Hirsch )
Conductor, Alec Sherman
Beethoven's Second Symphony is the only one of his nine symphonies that is not bang broadcast from the Promenade Concerts, where they are being performed this season in numerical order. It is therefore-included in tonight's concert, so that the sequence may not be broken.
The vigour and brilliance of the work are more than ever astonishing when one calls to mind the circumstances in which it was written. By 1802, when he was thirty-one, Beethoven was forced to realise that his deafness was incurable and his career as a pianis-t at an end. Just about this time he fell in love with ' a dear, fascinating girl '-believed to be Giulietta Guicciardi-though he declared that he could not marry her because she was ' not of his station,' and there was the further handicap of his deafness. Eventually Giulietta herself put an end to their relationship by marrying Count Gallenberg. Meanwhile Beethoven, on the advice of his phys'cian. had decided to spend the summer of 1802 at Heiligenstadt, a small village just outside Vienna. There, amid the pleasant countryside with its views of the Danube and the Carpathian mountains, he sought relief from his troubles by building up an ideal world of the spirit; there, in fact, he wrote his Second Symphony. Harold Rutland

Contributors

Leader:
Leonard Hirsch
Conductor:
Alec Sherman
Unknown:
Harold Rutland

by Wilkie Collins
Dramatised as a serial for radio in twelve parts by Howard Agg
8—' Daggers Drawn '
Characters in order of speaking:
Produced by David H. Godfrey
Noel Vanstone leaves London for the Suffolk coast where, in company with his formidable housekeeper, Mrs. Lecount, he moves into a seaside villa. In order to be near them for further investigations, Captain Wragge takes a similar house nearby to which he, his wife, and Magdalen move under the assumed name of Bygrave. Magdalen's intention now is to achieve her purpose of wresting the fortune from Noel Vanstone by marrying him, and her actions from the moment of this decision have that end in view. It is not long before Mr. and Mrs. ' Bygrave ' and their ' niece ' get to know Noel Vanstone and Mrs. Lecount and are invited to their house.

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilkie Collins
Unknown:
Howard Agg
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Narrator:
David Garth
Captain Wragge:
Felix Felton
Magdalen Vanstone:
Isabel Dean
Mrs. Lecount.:
Flora Robson
Noel Vanstone:
Alan Wheatley

by Sir Arthur Grimble
1 - 'The Old Man of the Colonial Office'
When Sir Arthur Grimble joined the Colonial Administrative Service in 1914, he was the first of the species cadet to be appointed a District Officer in the Central Pacific. In tonight's talk he describes his feeling when he attended a final interview at the Colonial Office, divided between a sense of his own inadequacy as a Kiplingesque leader of men and his romantic desire to explore the lagoon islands of the Pacific described by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Contributors

Speaker:
Sir Arthur Grimble

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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