From ' When Two or Three,' page 63
Mrs. ARTHUR WEBB : ' 'Milk Savouries '
Mr. CLIFFORD COLLINSON, F.R.G.S. : 'Drake'
Mr. Collinson continues this popular series with the story of Sir Francis Drake , Elizabethan explorer, adventurer and admiral. Two of. Drake's many exploits never stale with re-telling : the daring raid into Cadiz that delayed the sailing of the Spanish Armada, and his voyage round the world in the Golden Hind in two years and ten months.
Conducted by Anton
Relayed from The Brixton Astoria
(Violin Solo by Anton)
Directed by Frank Cantell
(From Birmingham)
' Round the Countryside '
Mr. ERIC PARKER : 'Fall of the Leaf '
Sir WALFORD DAVIES : On the tick of a Clock and the Tread of a Tune '
(2.30 Introductory Course; 3.0 Advanced
Course)
Monsieur K. M. STEPHAN , assisted by Mademoiselle E. R. MONTEIL
' What's' the News ? '—V
Mr. VERNON BARTLETT : 'Austria and her
Neighbours '
SYBIL CRAWLEY (Soprano)
THE PHILHARMONIC STRING QUARTET:
Charles Bye (Violin); Norman Chappie (Violin); Horace Ayckbourn (Viola) ; Frank
Ford (Violoncello)
QUARTET
Quartet in C, Op. 18, No. 2 Beethoven
1. Allegro; 2. Adagio cantabile; 3. Scherzo ; 4. Allegro molto quasi presto
Beethoven realised very well that a String Quartet is no job for an inexperienced or immature composer, and when he was offered quite a generous foe, in 1795, to compose one for a wealthy patron, he declined on the ground that he was nut yet sufficiently master of his art; he was then twenty-five. It was only four years later, when his style was already maturing towards the great middle period, that he composed the six string quartets which, ns Opus 18, are dedicated to Prince Lobkowitz.
Slight in structure and design as compared with the noble quartets of his middle period and the great string quartets which were among the last things he wrote, these first six are full of melody, and all so clear in their form as to be easily followed and enjoyed.
, at 4.45
HANDEL'S ARIAS
Arias from the Operas, sung by STILES ALLEN
(Soprano) Verdant meadows (Alcina, 1735)
Herr MAX KROEMER
(Section E)
(Led by MARIE WILSON)
Conducted by WARWICK BRAITHWAITE
DAVID WISE (Violin)
Jaromir Weinberger is the composer of the opera Schwanda the Bagpiper, which has been so extraordinarily successful that already more than 2,000 performances of it have been given in Central Europe ; the libretto has been translated into fourteen languages; it has been presented in the opera houses of practically every musical country in the world except Great Britain, and it has had the greatest popularity of any new opera since D'Albert's Tiefland, first produced nearly thirty years ago. The composer was born in 1896 in Prague, and had the advantage of studying with Max Reger in Leipzig. In 1922 he spent a short time in the United States as Professor of Composition at the Conservatorum of Ithica. The characteristics of his music are a conservative and very engaging gift of melody, a piquant sense of harmony, and a modern conception of counterpoint.
The Commonwealth of Nations-III
Professor R. COUPLAND , C.I.E. (Fellow of All Souls College and Beit Professor of Colonial History in the University of Oxford): 'The Commonwealth of Nations as it is Today '
The British Empire, the only one of the five ' Empires ' involved in the War to survive, has taken on a new shape and a new purpose as a result. The principles of democracy, self-determination and national autonomy applied to the constitution of the Empire and its component Dominions have resulted in the present alignment in the British Commonwealth of Nations. Professor Coupland explains tonight how this society of nations, a unique example of international co-operation, is linked by political, economic and sentimental ties.
LEW STONE and THE MONSEIGNEUR BAND, relayed from Monseigneur
(Shipping Forecast at 11.0)
