Georgie Henschel introduces your request records

and his Sextet with Gordon Parntt (bass)

Andrew Fenner at the BBC theatre organ
(Continued in next column)

What's on Today
Interviews, talks, and discussions with and about today's personalities and events; and commentaries on the opening overs in the matches between Hampshire and Worcestershire, and Nottingham-shire and the New Zealanders
Introduced by Peter Wilsc. i
Edited by Angus Mackay

BBC Welsh Orchestra
Conductor, Mansel Thomas

The Freddie Phillips Quintet

Notts v. New Zealanders
Hampshire v. Worcestershire
Commentaries by Rex Alston from Trent Bridge Cricket Ground, Nottingham, and by John Arlott from the United Services Ground,. Portsmouth

Tito Burns and hfs Music
From the Winter Gardens.
Ventnor. Isle of Wight

Directed by Henry Krein

Notts v. New Zealanders
Hampshire v. Worcestershire
Further commentaries

(Woolwich)
Conducted by Lt-Col. Owen Geary , m.b.E.
Director of Music
Raymond Newell (baritone)
From .the Grand Parade Bandstand,
Eastbourne

Notts v. New Zealanders
Hampshire v. Worcestershire

BBC Variety Orchestra (Leader, George Deason ) Conductor, Rae Jenkins with Eric Whitley
Introduced by Franklin Engelmann '

Notts v. New Zealanders
Hampshire v. Worcestershire

Notts v. New Zealanders
-Hampshire v. Worcestershire
(Commentaries continued)

at the BBC theatre organ

Notts v. New Zealanders
Hampshire v. Worcestershire
Further commentaries by Rex Alston from Trent Bridge Cricket Ground, Nottingham, and by John Arlott from the United Services Ground, Portsmouth

A selection of recordings made during the week at the National Eisteddfod of Wales at Dolgelley

including cricket close of play scores

Margherita Grandi (soprano)
Louis Kentner (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Part 1
Behind the dedication of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, ' To Monsieur N.
Dahl,' there ties an interesting story. For nearly two years Rachmaninov had suffered from apathy and want of confidence in himself, due to the failure of his first symphony, on which he had built great hopes. At last his friends persuaded him to visit a Dr. Dahl, who was winning a reputation in Moscow at that time for his psychological cures achieved by suggestion; The treatment was successful; Rachmaninov began to compose again and ideas flowed easily. Out of gratitude he dedicated his concerto to Dahl.
It was while he was a student at the Leningrad Conservatoire that Shostakovich, at the age of nineteen, wrote his First Symphony. It gained him immediate fame as a composer of merit and originality, and performances in England and America soon followed. The Symphony is scored for a large orchestra, including a piano. Harold Rutland

Henrtette Canter (violin)

Part 2

Cyril Stapleton and his Orchestra
From the Aquarium Ballroom,
Brighton

From the Empress Ballroom.
Blackpool

. and his Orchestra
From Hammersmith
Palais-de-Danse. London