The Len Goodwin Quartet
and forecast for farmers and shipping
(Leader, Frederick Lunnon )
Conductor, Frank Cantell
' Prayer and the Day's Work '
A talk by the Rt. Rev. F. A. Cockin ,
Bishop of Bristol
and forecast for farmers and shipping
BBC Scottish Variety Orchestra
(Leader, Jack Nugent )
Conducted by Guy Daines
by Miles Coverdale
by Alistair Cooke
SMETANA
' High Castle' (Vysehrad) and Vltava from the cycle ' My Country' on gramophone records
AU ye who seek for sure relief (BBC
Hymn Book 289)
New Every Morning, page 22 Psalm 27 Exodus 19, vv. 1-6, 9-12, 16-20
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
(BBC Hymn Book 142)
Band of the Royal Army Medical Corps
Conductor, Capt. L. D. Brown ,
Director of Music
Marjorie Lavers (violin)
Ivey Dickson (piano)
" Madeleine Grown Up ' by Mrs. Robert Henrey
Read by Rosemary Davis
Fifth instalment
Gramophone records of Eddie Cantor
Surrey v. Middlesex
Second day
Commentary by E. W. Swanton
From the Oval
A mid-day menu of radio artists known, well known, and unknown with the augmented
Dance Orchestra
Conducted by Stanley Black
Introduced this week byEve Lister
Produced by Trafford Whitelock
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Harry Davidson and his Orchestra with Ernest Davies
Programme introduced by Frederick Allen
Master of Ceremonies,
A. J. Latimer
Producer, Stanton Jefferies
Lunchtime scoreboard
BBC Welsh Orchestra
(Leader, Philip Whiteway)
Conductor, Arwel Hughes
Bruce Dargavel (bass-baritone)
Conducted by Roger Manvell
Films: Paul Dehn
Theatre: Ivor Brown
Books: Alan Pryce-Jones
Radio: Freda Bruce Lockhart
Art: Denis Mathews
Tom Jenkins plays light popular pieces written or transcribed for the violin
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
Dance of the Grasshoppers
Talk by John Hillaby
In the dry grass of August, the noise and movement of the grasshoppers seems never-ending. In this talk John Hillaby gives some facts about these active little creatures, which are so closely related to the locusts.
Jacques Abram (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Sibelius and Britten
From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Tickets may be obtained from Royal Albert Hall or usual agents
Benjamin Britten's Piano Concerto belongs, in its original form. to 1938, when it was performed at a Promenade Concert in Queen's Hall with the composer as soloist. Seven years later Britten revised the work, substituting an Impromptu for the Recitative and Aria which had formed the third o.' the four movements; and this definitive version was given for the first time at the Cheltenham Festival in 1946. The work, says the composer, ' was conceived with the idea of exploiting various important characteristics of the piano, such as its enormous compass, its percussive quality, and its suitability for figuration; so that it is not by any means a symphony with piano, but rather a bravura concerto with orchestral accompaniment.' The titles of the movements are Toccata, Waltz, Impromptu (a set of variations), and A4arch.
The Concerto is a light-hearted work, somewhat freakish and brittle, perhaps, but extremely effective; the Impromptu, in particular, has a misty charm that is very appealing. Harold Rut/and
