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by GUY ELDRIDGE
From The Concert Hall, Broadcasting
House
Mendelssohn's six Organ Sonatas, written in 1844-5, at the request of a London publisher, are generally acknowledged to be among the finest of his compositions. Even the superior people, who turn up their noses at almost everything Mendelssohn wrote, usually except ' Fingal's Cave the ' Midsummer Night's Dream ' music and these Sonatas, from their scorn. And with reason. Mendelssohn was an exceptionally fine organist himself and on these, his only compositions for this favourite instrument, he worked with loving care, drawing on the depths of his musical nature for his material and exerting all his power as a craftsman to give that material perfect shape.
His labour was fully rewarded. He produced a group of works finer than anything which had so far been written for the organ since Bach's day.

The London Palladium Orchestra, conducted by Richard Crean : Blue Devil's March (Williams); Amina (Lincke)
Regal Cinema Orchestra, conducted by Emanuel Starkey : Viennese Nights (Waltzes) (Romberg)
Charles Prentice and his Orchestra :
Rendez-vous (Intermezzo Rococo) (Aletter) ; Sizilietta (von Blon)
The London Palladium Orchestra, conducted by W. E. Pethers : Selection of Operatic Gems

Contributors

Conducted By:
Richard Crean
Conducted By:
Emanuel Starkey
Unknown:
Charles Prentice
Conducted By:
W. E. Pethers

(Section C)
Led by LAURANCE TURNER
Conducted by MALCOLM SARGENT
Schubert's Symphony Xo. 5 in B flat is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two bassoons, two horns, and strings-no clarinets or trumpets. Schubert probably made use only of the instruments that were available among his friends (the early symphonies were written specially for home entertainment), although these included by the time the Fifth Symphony was written a number of good professional musicians who bad joined the family circle.

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurance Turner
Conducted By:
Malcolm Sargent

JACK JACKSON AND HIS BAND Relayed from The Dorchester Hotel 11.0 11.45 London National only (261.1 m.) TELEVISION (low definition) By the Baird Process
GAVIN GORDON (bass-baritone) MAISIE SENESHALL (diseuse) MAx TURGANOFF (the Russian tenor) (Sound will be radiated on 296.2 m.)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Jackson
Unknown:
Baird Process
Bass-Baritone:
Gavin Gordon

National Programme Daventry

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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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