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Under the direction of Johan Hock from Queen's College Chambers Lecture Hall, Birmingham
The Birmingham Philharmonic String Orchestra
Leader, Norris Stanley
Conductor, Johan Hock
Norris Stanley (violin)
Alice Clayton (pianoforte)

One of the greatest tragedies in the history of French music was the death of Ernest Chausson (1855-1899) through a bicycle accident at his home at Limay, Seine-et-Oise. Like many other musicians, he began his career as a lawyer, but at the age of twenty-five he gave up law for music. His first move was to enter Massenet's composition class at the Paris Conservatoire, and he also studied with Cesar Franck for three years. From Massenet he learnt to write with the utmost purity of texture and from Cesar Franck he derived his richness of harmonic colour and deep romantic feeling.
These qualities are essentially characteristic of Chausson's Concerto in D for piano, violin, and string quartet, which is not a concerto in the real sense of the word, but more a piece of chamber music for sextet.

Contributors

Musicians:
The Birmingham Philharmonic String Orchestra
Leader/Violinist:
Norris Stanley
Conductor:
Johan Hock
Pianist:
Alice Clayton

Verdi's Opera 'Otello'
Acts 2 and 4
Cast

Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, conducted by Carlo Sabajno

Contributors

Conductor:
Carlo Sabajno
Otello:
Nicolo Fusati (tenor)
Iago:
Apollo Granforte (baritone)
Desdemona:
Maria Carbone (soprano)
Emilia:
Tamara Beltacchi (mezzo-Soprano)
Cassio:
Piero Girardi (tenor)
Lodovico:
Corrado Zambelli (bass)
A Herald:
Enrico Spada (bass)

The Band of His Majesty's Coldstream Guards, conducted by Lieut. R.G. Evans: Parade of the Tin Soldiers...Jessel

Foden's Motor Works Band, conducted by F. Mortimer: Harry Lauder Medley

The Band of His Majesty's Grenadier Guards, conducted by Major George Miller: March, High School Cadets...Johann Strauss

The BBC Military Band, conductor, B. Walton O'Donnell: Rakoczy March (The Damnation of Faust)...Berlioz, arr. Godfrey

Jean-Marie Leclair l'aine
(1697-1764)
Violin Sonatas played by JEAN POUGNET (violin)
JOHN TICEHURST (harpsichord)
Sonata No. 3, in C i. Adagio; 2. Allegro ; 3. Largo; 4. Giga: Allegro ma poco
Sonata No. 12, in G minor
1. Adagio ; 2. Allegro ma non troppo ; 3. Aria : Gratioso altro (maggiore) ; 4. Allegro

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean-Marie Leclair
Violin:
Jean Pougnet

C.H. Middleton
Amateur gardeners in particular, up and down the country, should listen to the Middleton broadcast tonight as it is to be devoted to their special problems. C.H. Middleton thought that the best way to get at those problems was to bring an amateur gardener to the microphone and answer such questions as were put to him. So in a way the small gardener, the allotment holder, and the beginner are represented tonight by someone who has not made gardening a profession, but for love of the game and for the sake of his family has wanted to grow things, and very often has succeeded in growing them as well as professional gardeners.

Contributors

Speaker:
C. H. Middleton

LESLIE H. HEWARD and VICTOR HELY-HUTCHINSON
The purpose of these talks is to discuss the music which is being played week by week in London, the provinces, and abroad. Each talk will have as its subject a concert, an opera, or a festival that listeners will have an opportunity of hearing. Leslie Heward and Victor Hely-Hutchinson will use such events as an excuse for talking round their subject : why this work appeals to them, what problems it presents to a conductor, why it is worth listening to, and how it was composed. Mr.
Heward may digress in order to speak about similar works, to tell stories of the composer's life, or to describe the conditions under which the work was written. Mr. Hely-Hutchinson will give interesting illustrations on the piano.

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie H. Heward
Unknown:
Victor Hely-Hutchinson
Unknown:
Leslie Heward
Unknown:
Victor Hely-Hutchinson

A Radio Play by Philip Wade
This play, specially written for the microphone, was broadcast in August, 1933. The first scene of the play is a school playing field, but it soon becomes apparent that far bigger issues than cricket will be involved. The central theme is that of the conflict between individualism and co-operation, and Philip Wade treats this conflict with a keen sense of the dramatic by contrasting the lives of two friends.
Of the original cast, only two appear in this evening's production: Wade himself as a clerk, and Norman Shelley, who played the part of Mr. Bernard in 1933, as Sir William Cray.

Contributors

Writer:
Philip Wade
Unknown:
Norman Shelley
Unknown:
Sir William Cray.

National Programme Daventry

About National Programme

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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