Relayed from the National Museum of Wales
National Orchestra of Wales
(Cerddorfa Genedlaethol Cymru)
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67..Beethoven
(to 14.00)
by Professor E. Ernest Hughes
Dafydd Ab Gwilym is the most celebrated of Welsh mediaeval poets who lived five and a half centuries ago, and he has been described as the earliest of the great singers of wild nature in medieval Europe.
The Station Trio: Frank Thomas (Violin), Ronald Harding (Violoncello), Evelyn Amey (Pianoforte)
Trio in B Flat, Op. 11
Allegro con brio, Theme and Variations
Composed originally for Clarinet, Violoncello and Pianoforte, this Trio is often played with the violin replacing the clarinet, which it can do quite satisfactorily here. Slightly built, like the early Trios which were broadcast at the beginning of this Beethoven series, it is all melodious and easy to understand, and it has the special interest of having its last movement based on a tune which Beethoven borrowed specially for the purpose. It is an old air, popular in its day, which would long ago have been forgotten but for his use of it - a merry little tune on which Beethoven makes a series of fresh and wholesome variations.
(10.15 West Regional News)
National Orchestra of Wales
(Cerddorfa Genedlaethol Cymru)
Conducted by Warwick Braithwaite
(to 23.00)
