HEBE SIMPSON (Soprano)
MERVYN LAMBERT (Baritone)
HECTOR GORDON (Scottish Entertainer)
EILEEN and IRENE HAYES
(A Musical Entertainment)
by EDGAR T. Coox
From Southwark Cathedral
MARGUERITA HUGHES (Soprano)
Miss RHODA POWER: What the Onlooker Saw (Course 3), II, An Eighteenth-Century
Election'
(Chinese)
ORCHESTRA
JEAN MELVILLE (Songs at the Piano)
From the Hotel Cecil
' Stonecracker John ' and other songs sung by REX PALMER
The Story of ' The Two Bazaars ' from ' The
Phcenix and the Carpet' (E. Nesbit )
Various Piano Solos, including ' Shepherd's
Hey ' (Grainger), played by CECIL DixoN ' Preparing for School Sports," by H. M. ABRAHAMS
by A. BONNET LAIRD
(The first of a series of six fortnightly talks)
Time Signal, GREEN
WICH ;
EARLY ITALIAN VIOLONCELLO
Music Played by JULIETTE ALVIN
THE violoncellist is very much less well off than his little brother, the violinist, in the music provided by the older masters for his instrument. Compared with pianists, he is in that respect a very beggar. And so for generations, violoncellists have had to make good the deficiency as best they might by stealing from the other instruments and re-arranging music not originally meant for them. Among the old Italian masters there is a wealth of delightfully melodious music which loses nothing, and, indeed, often gains by being transferred from the violin or one of the other instruments, to the resonant violoncello, and many eminent hands have done good work in making such arrangements. Listeners are to hear, at this period throughout the week, melodious examples from Italian music of the order which has earned for itself the title of ' secondary classics.'
In the spacious and dignified age before the virtuoso made his appearance on the stage of musical life, when the task of the artist was to delight rather than to astonish his audience, Corelli held sway as the ruling master of his instrument. Alike as player and as teacher, ho exercised an influence on the whole art of violin playing which it would be difficult to over-estimate.
ELSIE SUDDABY (Soprano) ALBERT SAMMONS (Violin)
BEATRICE HARRISON (Violoncello)
HOWARD JONES (Pianoforte)
ALBERT SAMMONS and HOWARD JONES First Sonata (1914)
With easy movement, but not quick ; Slow -with vigour and animation
ELSIE SUDDABY The Violot
In the Seraglio Garden Cradle Song
HOWARD JONES
Dance for Harpsichord Five Pianoforte Pieces
Mazurka; Waltz (for a little Girl) ; Waltz ; Lullaby for a Modern Baby ; Toccata
ALBERT SAMMONS and HowARD JONES: Second Sonata
(1905-15) (in One Movement)
ELSIE SUDDABY
Four Elizabethan Songs
(1915-16)
It was a Lover and his Lass
(Shakespeare)
Spring, the Sweet Spring
(Thomas Nash )
Daffodils (Robert Herrick )
So Sweet is She (Ben Jonson )
BEATRICE HARRISON and HOWARD JONES: Sonata
(1917) (in one Movement)
