Frank Thomas (Violin); Frank Whitnall (Violoncello); Hubert Pengelly (Pianoforte)

Miss Dorothy Morton

relayed from the Queen's Cinema.

Prof. F. E. Wells
S.B. from Manchester

(9.15 Local Announcements)

'I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain' -John Masefield
The Station Orchestra
conducted by Warwick Braithwaite

Maria Marova
Spanish Songs

Granados (1867-1916) found inspiration for his most important compositions in the work of Francisco Goya , the celebrated painter of scones from Spanish life. He composed a set of Pianoforte pieces called Goyescas, giving in another medium impressions of the scenes depicted by the artist. He also made an Opera out of the episodes he treated in these Pianoforte suites, and it is from this latter work that we are to hear an extract.
The dance-song, the Habanera, came to Spain from Africa by way of Cuba. Chabrier, a Frenchman of flamboyant spirit, was considerably attracted by the gay rhythms of Spanish popular music.
Manuel De Falla (born in 1876) is one of the leading figures in modern Spanish music. To national idioms be has added some sympathetic cosmopolitan influences, such as Debussy's; Stravinsky is not unknown to him.

Maria Marova
Spanish Songs

(to 23.00)