On page 21 of ' When Two or Three'
By a Doctor
Directed by Norman Austin
Relayed from
The New Victoria Cinema, Edinburgh
By CHRISTOPHER STONE
(Between 2.0 and 3.0 the Scottish National transmitter will radiate the Regional Programme. Details appear below. And from 3.0-4.5 the Scottish National transmitter will radiate the London Regional Programme)
RECEPTION TEST
2.5 (-2.25) ' Tracing History
Backwards -2
Mr. K. C. BOSWELL : Distributing things men need'
2.30 (-2.50) King's English-14
Rhythm and Accent
Professor A. LLOYD JAMES
Relayed from WESTMINSTER ABBEY
German Reading-I
Dr. ERNST DEISSMANN and Fraulein I. HERRMANN : Leberecht Huhnchen
(Heinrich Seidel )
Directed by Guy Daines
James Mason (baritone)
(Scottish Regional Programme)
Relayed from The Piccadilly Hotel
Weather Forecast, First General News Bulletin and Bulletin for Farmers
William Byrd 's
Psalmes, Sonets and Songs of Sadnes and Pietie (1588)
Sung by THE WIRELESS SINGERS
Conductor, LESLIE WOODGATE
Songs of Sadnes and Pietie
Prostrate, 0 Lord, I lie All as a sea Susanna fair
If that a sinner's sighs Care for thy soul
Lullaby, my sweet little Baby
Senorita MARIA DE LAGUNA
Its People at Work-3
Mr. JOHN HILTON
Devised by AUSTEN CROOM-JOHNSON with HARRY BERLY, JOHN BURNABY,
AUSTEN CROOM-JOHNSON, BILL SHAKESPEARE, ERIC SIDAY and ELISABETH WELCH
(By courtesy of Mr. Charles B.Cochran)
Light Comedy at the Piano
ERNEST SHANNON
Types and Contrasts
ROSE HIGNELL
Soprano
THE WESTERN BROTHERS
(KENNETH and GEORGE)
THE ORCHESTRA
Under the direction of S. KNEALE KELLEY
Weather Forecast, Second General News Bulletin
Mr. VERNON BARTLETT
CLAIRE CROIZA (mezzo-soprano)
LESLIE ENGLAND (pianoforte)
CLAIRE CROIZA ' SUMMER NIGHTS', ', the best-known group of Berlioz's songs-particularly when sung with orchestra-is a setting of six poems by Thdophile Gautier. Of these, ' Absence ' is the most frequently sung. Its striking opening is used frequently as a kind of motto. ' La Captive ' is a setting of words by Victor Hugo, Berlioz's great contemporary in another field. Berlioz, himself, esteemed ' La Captive ' as one of his finest compositions in the smaller vocal form. APART FROM bigger vocal works, in which solo voices are used with chorus and orchestra, Liszt left over sixty songs for one voice with pianoforte accompaniment. They are but seldom sung now, although many of them are of so fine a quality that, had he written nothing else, they would of themselves have earned him a high place in the annals of music. His settings of words
[ to music are all marked by a very intimate realisation of the full meaning of the words. VILLA-LOBOS, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1890, has taken a keen interest in the native music of his own country. He spent some years travelling all through it, taking down the strange, weird music of the Indians, but, though his own work is naturally influenced by that intimate knowledge of a very unusual idiom, it is all as original as anything which the present day has given us, as audacious in its departures from tradition as anything in modern Europe.
DEBUSSY'S Toccata, surely one of the most brilliant and moving pieces of virtuosity ever written for the piano, is a favourite with all pianists competent to tackle it. The music has all the harmonic piquancy that Debussy alone at that time could give to such a piece, combined with an almost unexpected rhythmic joy-not of course that such expression was alien to Debussy, but it is at least a rare quality in his work as a whole.
Conducted by the Rev. W. H. ELLIOTT
Relayed from
St. Michael's, Chester Square
THE, B.B.C. DANCE ORCHESTRA
Directed by HENRY HALL
(Shipping Forecast, on Daventry only, at 11.0)
