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Helen Egerton (Violin)
Maud Bramwell (Pianoforte)

Sonata in D, Op. 12, No.1 (Beethoven)

Beethoven's first three Violin Sonatas (his Op. 12) seem to have been written when he was about twenty-eight years old. They contain mostly pleasant, cheerful music, with little in them of the forceful, compelling, mature Beethoven. The First Sonata has three separate Movements. The First Movement (Quick and vigorous) is a busy, runabout piece. It has two main tunes. The first is the jerky strutting up and down the chord of D major at the opening, with the tags which Violin, and then Piano, attach. The second main tune is a sort of slow four-finger exercise, first introduced high up on the Piano.

Adagio and Allegro in A, Op. 70 (Schumann, arr. Jansent)

Contributors

Violinist:
Helen Egerton
Pianist:
Maud Bramwell

(See centre column).

Relayed from the Atholl Palace Hotel, Pitlochry
S.B. from Dundee
Introduction by The Vale of Atholl Pipe Band
Pipe Major, R. Dirnie
With an account of the Highland Scenery

7.50 Betty Bannerman (Contralto)
Maiden of Morven...arr. Lawson
The Skye Boat Song...arr. Lawson

7.57 Nell Grieg (Topical)
The Moors...J.T. Stoddart

8.7 Robert Burnett (Baritone)
Two Gaelic Numbers

8.14 Alec Sim (Violin)
Slow Strathspey, 'Fairbairns'...Fairbairns
Strathspey, 'Athol Brose'...McIntosh
Strathspey, 'The Duchess's Supper'...Gow
Reel, 'The Marquis of Tullibardine'...Crerar

8.21 Nell Grieg
It wisna his wyte...Charles Murray

8.28 Betty Bannerman
O can ye sew cushions?...arr. Lawson
Sound the Pibroch...arr. Lawson

8.35 Alec Sim
Air, 'The Nameless Lassie'...McKenzie
Strathspey, 'The Highlands of Banffshire'...Fraser
Reel, 'The Clydeside Lasses'...Traditional

8.42 Robert Burnett
Lowland Scots Group

8.50 The Vale of Atholl Pipers
Eightsome Reel; March, 'Macdonald of the Isles' March to Harlaw'; Strathspey, 'Blair Drummond'; Reel, Duntroon'

With a Running Commentary on the set reels and the piping by Douglas H. Scott

DOROTHY ROBSON (Soprano)
THE CHARLES WOODHOUSE
STRING QUARTET:
CHARLES WOODHOUSE (First Violin). HERBERT KINSEY . ERNEST YONG (Yiola).CHARLES CRABBE (Violoncello)
1. Allegro mocterato ; 2. Piacevole (poco andante); 3. Finale: Allegro motto
FIRST MOVEMENT (Moderately quick). The first mam tune really consists of several detached figures, each of a mere two or three notes. It is not easy to follow these in detail. but the most important is a drooping figure. which is heard at the third bar (i.e., about six seconds from the beginning !).
The second main tune is a more definite melody—swaying, very expressive. It is first heard in First Violin, in tender vein ; out it can be highly impassioned, as we find later.
The SECOND MOVEMENT is marked ' pleasantly,' and that is really all one needs to know about 'its mood. There is nothing of mere pretty-pretty pleasantness about the music ; it comes from the heart, is given to us as modestly as graciously as some subtle bits of lovely tone colour, which string players especially will relish, and ends in purest, sweetest calm.
THIRD MOVEMENT (Very quick). The Finale begins with terse, peremptory ejaculations from Viola and Violoncello. These quickly lead into the first main tune, in which the First Violin rushes up to one note, then to another, then back again. This rather rough going lasts for some time. At length things become smoother, and the more 'lyrical second main tune arrives, at first in First Violin. When this -seems finished with, the Viola comes upon a fussy little, chattering figure-orily to find we are not really rid of the second main tune.
The Movement is. in fact, barely begun ; but practically -everything is derived from what has now been ihoard.

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