5WA Cardiff is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 13th February 1923 and ended on the 28th May 1923.

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5WA Cardiff

An Afternoon Concert

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

The Opera to which this is the Overture enjoys the distinction, probably unique, of having been completely encored on its first performance. Its composer, one of the most famous of the Italian school, was, at the time of its composition, Court musician to the Emperor Leopold III of Austria, and it was His Majesty himself who enjoyed the work so much as to insist on its complete repetition immediately after it had been sung and played for the first time.

This lighthearted music of Debussy's needs no more explanation than the words in which it is dedicated, 'To my dear little Chou-Chou, with her father's tender excuses for what follows.' There are six movements: (1) Dr. Gradus ad Parnassum, no doubt a playful allusion to the famous pianoforte studies of that name with which so many young people have struggled; (2) Jimbo's Lullaby; (3) Serenade for the Doll; (4) The Snow is Dancing; (5) The Little Shepherd; (6) The Golliwog's Cake Walk.

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Sir Thomas Hughes: My First National Eisteddfod: Wrexham, 1888

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Egwyl Gymraeg (A Welsh Interlude)

Gwladys Jones ('Meinir Tawe')
Reading the following Welsh poems:
Rhan o Bryddest 'Mab y Bwythyn' (Cynan)
Detholiad o'r nofel 'Rhys Lewis' (Daniel Owen)
Dwy Delyneg o waith Eifion Wyn (Eifion Wyn)

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Sir Thomas Hughes: My First National Eisteddfod: Wrexham, 1888

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