Relayed from the WINTER GARDENS,
BOURNEMOUTH
THE BOURNEMOUTH
MUNICIPAL AUGMENTED
ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Sir DAN GODFREY
OWEN BRYNGWYN
(Baritone);
ERNST SLANEY (Violoncello) In one continuous Movement with three Sections (Soloist, ERNST SLANEY> )

(From Birmingham)

(From Birmingham)
' A Nursery Rhyme Play-Humpty Dumpty,' by Gladys Ward. Selections by the BIRMINGHAM
STUDIO ORCHESTRA. TONY will entertain

SIR HENRY WOOD and his SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
GWLADYS NAISH (Soprano) ; TREFOR JONES
(Tenor); EGON PETRI (Pianoforte)
Relayed from the Queen's Hall, London
CASELLA (born 1883) is already well known to concert-goers, several of his works having been heard in this country, notably his impressions entitled Pages of War. He is a versatile musician, a concert pianist, and music critic, and author of a book on 'The Evolution of Music.' His ' modernist ' tendencies go hand in hand with a keen appreciation of the classics; his edition of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas is admirable.
His Partita, dedicated to the well - known
American patron of music, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Coolidge, came out in 1925. A note given at a subsequent performance pointed out that the work is scored for a rather unusual combination of instruments - Oboe, two Clarinets, Bass Clarinet, three Trumpets, Drums, and Strings. The Pianoforte, Oboe, and one Clarinet form a little solo group, used after the manner of that which we have heard in various Concerti Grossi.
We arc familiar with the word Partita, the name derived from the sets of dance tunes that German town bands used to play in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Composers for the keyboard (notable among them was Bach) took the name for their suites of pieces in dance style.
There are three Movements : Sinfonia, Passacaglia, and Burlesca. ,
In the Sinfonia the composer has attempted a fusion of the early sonata, suite and concerto forms.
A Passacaglia keeps one basic tune going all the time, building varied matter above it. Casella uses many devices for obtaining variety -contrasting rhythms and sharply-pointed orchestration ; and the theme itself undergoes some alteration.
The Burlesca is a gay Rondo.
GWLADYS NAISH AND Orchestra
Recit. and Air, Micaela's Song ' (' Carmen Bizet

(Continued)
IBERIA is tho old name for Spain. Albeniz
(1860-1909) wrote for the Pianoforte a Suite of twelve pieces, to which he gave this title, each descriptive of some aspect of Spanish life. Several of these were orchestrated by his friend Enrique Arbos.
The three pieces most commonly played in the orchestral Suite are (I) the Evocation, a sort of synthesis or generalization of Spanish feeling, as a prelude ; (2) El Corpus en Sevilla-the festival of Corpus Christi, with all manner of rejoicing, a suggestion of the devotional side of the feast, and at the close the peace of night; (3) Triana, a suburb of Seville, in which many gipsies live.