MARK RAPHAEL (Baritone) ; SAMUEL KUTCHER (Violin) : CEDRIC SHARPE (Violoncello);
REGINALD PAUL (Pianoforte)
SAMUEL KUTCHER , CEDRIC SHARPE , and REGINALD PAUL
THIS Trio (or Terzett, as Mozart called it) was written in that year of extraordinary productivity, 1788 (in July, the month which saw the birth of the G Minor Symphony). This, and the other works for Pianoforte, Violin and Violoncello, were mostly written for amateur friends. This in C is quite an easy one. It contains three Movements-two quick ones, between which is a Slow Movement, in singing style.

Erlanbe mir, feins Madehen (Permit me, lovely maiden): Sehwesterlein (Little Sister) ; Feinsleibchen, du sollst nicht barfuss gehen (My love, you should not go bare foot).
ALMOST the whole of Hugo Wolf 's output consisted of songs. Besides these, he wrote one complete opera, and had written half the first Act of another (at the age of thirty-seven) when mental disease attacked him. He died six years later, in 1903. The Lied eines Verliebten is a lover's song.
Thoughts of his love awake him early in the morning, and at midnight he is thinking of her. He wonders if the capricious maiden has given him even a single thought.
Der Gartner is a light, graceful song in praise of a lovely Princess, who comes riding down the avenue. The gardener covets a remembrance of her-only a feather from the hood that covers her dainty head, and would give her in return all his flowers.
BRAHMS set a considerable number of folk-songs, both for solo voice and for choir. These three are from a set of Forty-nine German Folk Songs, the last of three such oollections that he published.
Erlaube mir is a lover's petition to be allowed to see the roses in her garden. But the maiden is coy, and refuses, so the lover is left lamenting that he may only view such beauties from afar.
Schwesterlein is a conversation between a brotner and sister. The former asks ' Sister fair, it is nearly midnight ; when shall we go home i ' The sister would stay and dance with her sweetheart. In the end of the song is a note of tragedy—' Sister fair. why do you walk so wearily ? ' 'I would fain lie under the turf, brother dear.'
Feinsliebchen is a song with a ' la la la ' refrain.
The lover protests that his charmer shall never go bare-foot. Ho will buy her nice clothes. The maid reminds him that she is poor, and cannot wed. Never mind, he insists, she is true and honest, and that is better than gold. The end shows that the determined fellow was sure of his case, for we hear the lass saying: What was that he took from his pocket ? My heart, it was a golden ring ! '

From the Birmingham Studio
Prayer
Hymn, Hail to the Lord's Anointed' (Songs of Praise, 246)
Reading
Anthem, 'Jesu, Word of God Incarnate' Mozart
Address by the Rev. G.B. Robson (Acocks Green Wesleyan Church)
Hymn, 'I heard the Voice of Jesus say' (Songs of Praise, 267)
Benediction

and the Park Lane Hotel Orchestra
ESTHER COLEMAN (Contarlto)
Relayed from the Park Lane Hotel ORCHESTRA Grand Fantasia on Wagner's ' 'Tannhäuser'