La VaLe - Ravel
LILIAN GRAHAM (Soprano),
HUGH PHELPS (Bass-Baritone)
Directed by GEORGES HAECK From the Restaurant Frascati
2.0 2.25 (Davcntryonly) Experimental Transmission of Still Pictures by the Fultograph Process
Miss C. VON WYSS , ‘ Nature Study for Town and Country Schools—IX, Frogs'
Spawn and Tadpoles '
CONSTANCE BULL (Contralto)
PHYLLIS McDONALD (Violin)
DOROTHY FOLKARD (Pianoforte) PHYLLIS McDONALD and DOROTHY FOLKABD
AMONG the great Bach's lighter pieces are six little Sonatas for violin and pianoforte. Slight in structure as compared with a modern Sonata-with that of Brahms played at the beginning of the programme, for instance—they are instinct with Bach's bigness, in their own concise way.
This one in B minor begins with a slow movement, rather sad in tone : the pianoforte, as afterwards the violin, has a melody made up of a motive which wireless listeners must now have learned to recognize as one of Bach's favourite expressions of sorrow.
A dainty and light-footed quick movement comes next. in gavotte rhythm, but without the solemnity of that old dance, and then there is another very tuneful slow movement flowing along more easily' than the first.
The last movement is again quick and merry; listeners will ha vo no difficulty in identifying its chief tune-made up of a repeated note.
Sonata in D Minor - Brahms
4.15 CONSTANCE BULL. Die Mullerin (The Maid of the Mill) - Grieg
Eingehullt in graue Wolken (Veiled in grey clouds) - Grieg
Was soil ich sagen ? (What shall I say ?) - Grieg
Sapphic Ode - Brahms
Immer leiser wird mein- Schlummer (Ever lighterBrahams grows my slumber) - Brahms
4.30 PHYLLIS McDONALD and DOROTHY FOLKABD Sonata in B Minor - Bach
by EDWARD O'HENRY
From Madame Tussaud 's Cinema
'GENTLEMAN DICK,’ a Highwayman Play, specially written for broadcasting by C. E. Hodges. Incidental
Music by the GEORGIAN TRIO
CHOPIN MAZURKAS
Played by IBENE SCHARRER (Pianoforte)
WHEN the social problem to be investigated is one of the present day, much of the evidence on which its study depends must necessarily be oral. In her second talk Mrs. Sidney Webb will explain, from her own vast experience, how interviews can be made most profitable, and how oral evidence given before Royal Commissions and Committees of Inquiry should be sifted and assessod before it can safely be used.
A Play in Five Acts by Gabriele d'Annunzio
Translated from the Italian by Arthur Symons
Arranged for broadcasting by Dulcima Glasby
Produced by Howard Rose
Dramatis Personae: Ostasio Francesca .... Sons and Daughters of Bannino Samaritana .... Guido Minore da Polenta Biancofiore Altichiara Alda Adonella (Francesca's Women Garsenda The Slave j Ser Toldo Berardengo Viviano de' Vivii Aspinello Aersendi An Archer Bertrando Luro J Partisans of Guido Giovanni, The Lame,' known as Gianciotto"! ~ f Malatesta Paola, The Beautiful da Verrucchio Malatestino, The One-Eyed ' da Verrucchio Oddo Dalle Caminate ................ Partisans of Malatesia Foscolo d Olnano .................... Partisans of Malatesia The Merchant The Astrologer The Doctor The Jester
Act I. - A court in the house of the Polentani at Ravenna adjacent to a garden that shines brightly through a marble screen. A flight of steps leads down to the threshold of the enclosed garden. Near the steps is a Byzantine sarcophagus filled with earth, in which grows a crimson rosebush.
Act II. - A cross-shaped room, in the house of the Malatesti, which leads through a narrow closed entrance between two walls pierced by loopholes, to the platform of a round tower. The summit of the tower, crowned with engines and arms that stand out in the murky air, overlooks the city of Rimini.
Act III. - A room painted in fresco, elegantly divided into panels, portraying stories out of the romances of Tristan. Near the window is a reading desk, on which is open 'The History of Launcelot of the Lake,' composed of large illuminated pages. Beside it is a couch with many cushions of samite on which anyone leaning back can see over the whole seashore of Rimini. In the midst of the floor is seen the bolt of a trapdoor, through which a passage leads to the lower rooms.
Act IV. - An octagonal hall of grey stone with a grated door leading to a subterranean prison. Another door leads to the room of Francesca. All round are placed torchbearers of iron; on brackets are hung shoulder-belts, and different portions of armour.
Act V. - The room with the curtained alcove, the lectern with the book closed. Four waxen torches burn in the room candle-sticks, two tapers on the small table.
by FRAULEIN WILTON (Soprano) and NIELS HANSEN (Tenor) with ' THE WIRELESS ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JOHN ANSELL
