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The Cologne Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Hermann Abendroth : Concerto Grosso No. 6, in A minor (Vivaldi)—I.Allegro ; 2. Larghetto e spiritoso
Anna Linde (harpsichord) with String
Orchestra : Concerto 'in G (Bach)-1. Allegro ; 2. Andante ; 3. Allegro assai
The Boyd Neel String Orchestra :
St. Paul's Suite (Holst)—I. Jig ; 2.
Ostinato; 3. Intermezzo; 4. Finale
(The Dargason)
John Barbirolli 's Chamber Orchestra : Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Op. 47 (Elgar)
The London Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Anthony Bernard : Cherry Ripe (arr. Frank Bridge)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Hermann Abendroth
Harpsichord:
Anna Linde
Unknown:
I. Jig
Unknown:
John Barbirolli
Conducted By:
Anthony Bernard

Bach Celebrations under the direction of C. SANFORD TERRY , Litt.D., Mus.D., LL.D. (Hon. Fellow of Clare College,
Cambridge)
BACH'S CHORALS
Unison Chorals sung by ROSALIND ROWSELL (soprano)
DORIS OWENS (alto)
MARTIN BODDEY (tenor)
At the organ, BERKELEY MASON
Valet will ich dir geben (Farewell, farewell for ever) (soprano)
Zudem ist Weisheit und Verstand (How great the wisdom of our God) (alto)
Zion hort die Wachter singen (Zion hears the watchmen calling) (tenor)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sanford Terry
Sung By:
Rosalind Rowsell

Students of German will welcome this reading from Mr. Otto Siepmann , who has instructed them in the difficulties of the language so often before. Mr. Siepmann proposes to divide the reading into two parts. For the first half he has selected a number of lyrics which do not belong to the best-known poems, such as are contained in Pcrlen Deutscher Dichtung ,with which many listeners are already acquainted, and of which gramophone records have been made. He has 'been careful to choose verses expressed in simple language and containing thoughts and feelings that come from the heart. In the second half he will read Bürger's famous ballad Lenore '.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mr. Otto Siepmann
Unknown:
Pcrlen Deutscher Dichtung

The One Inch Ordnance Map
Brigadier H. St. J. L. WINTERBOTHAM , C.M.G., D.S.O. (Director-General of Ordnance Survey, 1930-35)
Today, when walking is all the vogue, nothing can be more useful than the ability to read the One-inch Ordnance map. Find yourself in strange country, and you can not only find your way by it, but you can know in advance all kinds of things-the sort of country you are to pass through, fieldpaths, farms, water, woods, hamlets. You can measure distance and time your journey. If you know how to read that map, it is your guide, philosopher, and friend.
This evening Brigadier H. St.
J. L. Winterbotham , who was Director-General for the Ordnance Survey from 1930 until this year, when he retired, is to talk to you of this map. Next Thursday he will discuss the plan, and the following week how the map is made.

Contributors

Unknown:
H. St.
Unknown:
J. L. Winterbotham
Unknown:
Brigadier H. St.
Unknown:
J. L. Winterbotham

A play by VALENTINE DUNN
Produced by HOWARD ROSE
Characters (By permission of Ronald Adam)
This play will be repeated in the Regional programme tomorrow evening

Contributors

Play By:
Valentine Dunn
Produced By:
Howard Rose
Narrator:
Patric Curwen
Sarah:
Barbara Couper
Ellen her daughters:
Cicely Turner
Mary her daughters:
Lola Duncan
Her Father:
Gordon McLeod
Her Mother:
Molly Rankin
Bella, their servant:
Gladys Young
Benjamin Gray, her husband:
George Hagan
Amanda, her friend:
Queenie Russell
Sarah-Jane, her first daughter:
Valentine Dunn
Paul Varenne, an artist:
John Cheatle
Sally, her grand-daughter:
Gwendolen Evans
Richard Barton, an artist:
Geoffrey Wincott
Doctor:
Stafford Hilliard
Sexton:
Philip Wade
Waiter:
Noel Iliff

in A Little of This and That
Listeners will welcome Anona Winn and her Four Winners in the first production of her new act tonight. For a long time she had had the idea of producing something that was a little bit of everything-various styles of song and music, numbers going from grave to gay, sentimental foxtrots, opera; in short, fifteen minutes of versatility.
She has arranged it all, and produced it all; she is to do her own announcing, and of course to sing. Her Four Winners are as follows : Eddie Lisbona , doubling piano and accordion ; Reg Leopold , doubling clarinet and violin; Bert Thomas , playing the guitar ; and Will Shakespeare, of course playing the trumpet.
These the instrumentalists to support one of the most popular, versatile and consistently successful of broadcasters in her new act.

Contributors

Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Eddie Lisbona
Accordion:
Reg Leopold
Violin:
Bert Thomas

MARGRIT FRANKE (contralto)
ANTONI SALA (violoncello)
Max Bruch (1838-1920) was brought up in a musical family. At the age of fourteen he gained the Mozart Founda tion Scholarship at Frankfurt, where he studied under Ferdinand Hiller and Carl Reinecke. Later he became Professor of Composition at the Berlin Hochschule, and in 1880 he was appointed conductor of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society, which post he retained for three years. Bruch was a fairly prolific composer of every branch of composition, including symphonies, operas, songs, choral music and virtuoso works for the violin. Of the latter, the Violin Concerto in D minor is, perhaps, the best known. Several of Bruch's works are based on Hebrew melodies. The most popular of these is Kol Nidrei, scored for solo violoncello and orchestra. Kol Nidrei is a prayer intoned in some Jewish synagogues on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur).
Robert Franz was born at Halle within a week or two of the Battle of Waterloo, and died in 1892. He is considered one of the most important composers of German Lieder, and though his songs are sung today with less and less frequency, the listener will be able to trace in these often beautiful songs the germ of the more highly developed modern Lieder.
Franz wrote over two hundred and fifty songs. Mendelssohn, as did Schumann, praised the early songs of Franz very warmly, but was not so appreciative of the later ones, which he complained lacked melody. The charm of these songs lies not only in their unaffected simplicity and naive emotional content, but in their ingenious and imaginative workmanship.
Niccola Porpora (1686-1767) was a famous Italian teacher of singing and composer of opera. Haydn went to him for lessons, in return for which he is supposed to have blacked Porpora's shoes and acted as his batman. Porpora appears to have been somewhat of a ' rolling stone ', for he lived at various stages of his career at Venice, London, Vienna, Dresden, and Naples.

Contributors

Unknown:
Max Bruch
Unknown:
Mozart Founda
Unknown:
Ferdinand Hiller
Unknown:
Carl Reinecke.
Unknown:
Kol Nidrei
Unknown:
Robert Franz
Unknown:
Niccola Porpora

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National Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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