Reading for Sunday morning from ' Reality,' by B. H. Streeter
Read by Sheila Raynor
and forecast for farmers and shipping
London Light Concert Orchestra
(Leader, Tom Jenkins )
Conducted by Michael Krein with David Wise (violin)
Romance No. 1 in G, Op. 40 played by Heifetz (violin) with Orchestra
Conducted by William Steinberg on gramophone records
by Admiral Sir Martin Dunbar-Nasmith v.c., K.C.B.
Vice-Chairman of the Imperial War Graves Commission
from the Cenotaph, Whitehall
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
Contents :
' Herbert Murrill (1909-1952),' by Anthony Lewis
' Rossini's " serious music,' by Francis Toye
-' The Guitar,' by Julian Bream
Conducted by John Summerson
Radio: Rose Macaulay Art: J. M. Richards
Films: Roger Manvell Theatre: M. R. Ridley
Books: Pamela Hansford Johnson
and forecast for farmers and shipping
from Ribblesdale
Introduced by Philip Robinson
Music by Jack Hardy 's Little Orchestra
Singer, William Robinson
Produced by Ray Lakeland
by Rhona Williams
Adapted for radio by Cynthia Pughe
Produced by Hugh Stewart
(Continued in next column)
' The Love of Jobadiah Appletree '
A new story by Kitty Styles told by Elizabeth followed by ' The Spacious Firmament on High ' by Geoffrey Dearmer
Including a story and poems by Waiter de la Mare, Eleanor Farjeon , V. Sackville-West, Robert Graves , and others, with music chosen by David Davis
Readers. Doro'hy Smith May Jenkin, Alvar Lidell
More About Shopping by Bernard Hollowood
(BBC recording)
Today the speaker takes up from listeners some ideas on economical shopping and discusses them. Listeners' contributions to the programme should be addressed to [address removed]
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England.
.The BBC's team of correspondents in New York report on the week's proceedings
Paul Tortelier (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
When Brahms first read through the score of Dvorak's cello concerto he said 'Why on earth didn't I know that one could write a concerto like this? If only I had known, I would have written one long ago.' Not many composers have followed Dvorak's lead, but among them are three British musicians, Elgar, Moeran, and Murrill.
Murrili, perhaps, had less difficulty in solving the problem of balance between solo instrument and orchestra than the other two composers, by reason of his natural clarity of texture, but he invented a novel way of presenting his material. His concerto, written for his wife Vera Canning, is in one continuous movement.
The centre of the work is the lovely Catalan folk song ' EI Cant dels Oce'lls ' ('The Song of the Birds'), which Casals (to whom the concerto is dedicated 'in respect and affection...') wrote down for Murrill with some others, a few years before the composition of the concerto. This tune is hinted at in the Scherzo before it sings its heart out in the slow movement. The composer's friends will retain happy memories of his delight in playing this tune to them on the piano.
(Alec Robertson)
Appeal on behalf of the British Limbless Ex-Service Men's Association (registered in accordance with the National Assistance Act 1948), by Group-Captain Douglas Bader D.s.o. ,, D.F.C.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
Records show that there are, in this country, 40,000 limbless veterans of the two world wars. The British Limbless Ex-Service Men's Association is doing everything in its power to help them to overcome the handicaps imposed by amputations, by means of ass stance and advice on matters of pensions and allowances, welfare, and employment. More than £6,000 a year is being expended on welfare grants, and calls on this fund are increasing from the ageing men of the 1914-18 war, whose average age is now 63.
The Association also maintains a home for Limbless Ex-Servicemen which costs £ 10,000 a year to maintain, and plans are in ihand 40 open a second home shortly.
Read by Marjorie Westbury
Peryck Guyler and David Peel
Narrator, Carleton Hobbs
Richard Standen (bass)
Jacques Orchestra
(Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz )
Conductor, Reginald Jacques
Composers' thoughts upon Death have varied from ahe awesome and defiant to the scoffing and maudlin. Few but Bach could treat the theme of Cantata 82, the joy of the Christian at having done with This treacherous world, with such unforced tenderness and yet with complete wholesomeness. And who but Bach could end the theme with a vivace? In ' Ich habe genug ' as in the ' Kreuzstab ' cantata, Bach uses the bass voice as the chief vehide for the words. In the former, the voice echoes a poignant oboe theme which Bach also used as a violin obbligato to the contralto aria ' Erbarme dich mein ' in the St. Matthew Passion. The air That follows, ' Schlummert ein,' had appeared also in the Anna Magdalena book of 1725, some six years earlier.
J H. Davies
for Remembrance Day
A reading from the Funeral Oration of Pericles
