(Cerddorfa Genedlaethol Cymru)
Conducted by Reginald Redman

A Good deal of Moszkowski's bright and melodious pianoforte music is happily known to listeners. In spite of his Polish-sounding name he was a German who held a leading place as solo pianist and teacher in more than one great German school. He made many appearances in London, first at a Philharmonic Concert, in 1886, and for the last time in 1908, when he conducted a programme of his own music in the Queen's Hall.
Among his more important works is the Opera, Boabdil, on a story dealing with the Moors in Spain. It was produced in Berlin in 1892. It includes a very effective Ballet, with its scene at the Court of the Lions in the Alhambra Palace.
The Ballet forms part of the wedding festivities of Boabdil himself, the last of the Moorish Kings. In it, Moszkowski uses characteristic dance rhythms of Spain itself, and the music changes in mood, majestic, tender and boisterous by turns, in a brilliant and effective way.

Relayed from the Coney Beach Dance Restaurant, Porthcawl

National Orchestra of Wales

(Cerddorfa Genedlaethol Cymru)
Conducted by Reginald Redman

Like more than one other of the present-day English composers, Henry Geehl has devoted a large share of his best work to the educational side of music. Teachers of pianoforte and singing owe him much for the way in which he has enriched their libraries with music which is at once thoroughly sound and well laid out for its purpose, and so melodious as to attract the young aspirant. Listeners have had a good many opportunities of hearing some of his best-known songs, and occasionally, instrumental pieces, but most of his more important works are hardly known as yet. He has composed two Operas, at least one Symphony, and three orchestral Suites, as well as Concertos for pianoforte and violin. He lias also written expressly for Military Band.
In this picturesque Suite he makes use of a number of real South Sea Island airs. In the first movement, 'By Coral Reef and Shady Palm,' the tune has an obstinate rhythmic bass which has much to do with its barbaric effect. The second movement a Savaii Love Song, is a dreamy tune in which the ukulele has a prominent part. The third, a boldly rhythmic movement, working up to a boisterous close, is written in one of the old Greek modes which is the basis of the folk tunes of many lands.

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