Relayed from the National Museum of Wales

National Orchestra of Wales
(Cerddorfa Genedlaethol Cymru)

There are several of the world's great treasures of art so well known and so universally beloved that no one ever has to speak of them by their full names. This Symphony is usually called affectionately 'the great C major,' and no one has any doubt that it is Schubert's which is in question. Although called No. 7, while the 'Unfinished' is No. 8, it is supposed that this was really a later work. It certainly presents the great Master of song at the very height of his powers, and is in every way a noble piece of music.
It is possibly open to the objection that it is full of repetitions of the same things, and it was probably left pretty much as it came from Schubert's thought, without the drastic revision to which slower and more painstaking composers often subject their work after it has been set down. But it is so full of splendid tunes, so rich in all that makes music best worth while, that few would really wish to have it curtailed.

(to 14.00)

The Station Trio: Frank Thomas (Violin); Ronald Harding (Violoncello); Hubert Pengelly (Pianoforte)
Trio in G, Op. 1, No. 2
Scherzo and Finale

(Under the auspices of the Ministry of Health)
S.B. from Sheffield

(10.15 Local Announcements)

National Orchestra of Wales
(Cerddorfa Genedlaethol Cymru)
Conducted by Warwick Braithwaite

Like many of his followers in the modern school of Russian music, of which he was the actual founder, Glinka had passed the usual age for musical apprenticeship before taking up any serious study of the subject. It was only after some years in a Government post in St. Petersburg, and after a stay in Italy, where he made the acquaintance both of Donizetti and Bellini, that he determined to begin work in earnest on a project of which he had till then, thought only vaguely-a national Russian Opera.
The whole-hearted enthusiasm with which he devoted himself to the task had its reward in the immediate success of his first opera, A Life for the Czar, which is, at the same time, the first, really national opera.
Russian and Ludmilla, of which the Overture is to be heard this evening, was his next opera. Although musically a great advance on the other, it has never had anything like the same popularity, and it is only the Overture which is at all well known outside his native country.

(to 23.00)