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The Berlin Charlottenburg Opera
Orchestra, conducted by Alois Melichar : Hungarian March in C minor (Schubert, arr. Liszt)
The Halle Orchestra, conducted by Sir Hamilton Harty : Royal Hunt and Storm (The Trojans) (Berlioz)
The British Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Bruno Walter : Siegfried's Journey to the Rhine (Die Gotterdammerung) (Wagner)
The Brussels Royal Conservatoire
Orchestra,conducted by Desire Defauw : Mephisto Waltz (Liszt)
The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy : Scherzo capriccioso, Op. 66
(Dvorak)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Alois Melichar
Conducted By:
Sir Hamilton Harty
Conducted By:
Bruno Walter
Conducted By:
Desire Defauw
Conducted By:
Eugene Ormandy

Arthur de Greef (pianoforte) :
Wedding Day (Grieg)
Pau Casals (violoncello) : Song without words in D, Op. 100 (Mendelssohn) ; Songs my mother taught me (Dvorák); Flight of the Bumble Bee (Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. Strimer)
Sergei Rachmaninov (pianoforte) :
Waltz ; One lives but once (Johann Strauss , arr. Tausig)
Jascha Heifetz (violin) : Rondo
(Schubert, arr. Friedberg) Ave Maria (Schubert, arr. Wilhelmj): Guitarre, Op. 45, No. 2 (Moszkowski, arr. Sarasate)
Wilhelm Backhaus (pianoforte) :
Scherzo in E flat, Op. 4 (Brahms)

Contributors

Pianoforte:
Sergei Rachmaninov
Unknown:
Johann Strauss
Violin:
Jascha Heifetz
Pianoforte:
Wilhelm Backhaus

Olive DYER (soprano)
THE ENTENTE STRING QUARTER :
Dorothy Churton (violin); Gerald Emms (violin) ; Nora Wilson (viola);
Edith Churton (violoncello) QUARTET
Quartet No. 2, La oracion del torero
(The Toreador's Prayer) .... Turina
In dimensions ' The Toreador's Prayer Quartet is a minor work of the Spanish composer, Joaquin Turina , whose chamber music marks him as perhaps the most important composer of that form of writing today in Spain. The subject, however, ' The Toreador's Prayer ', is a picturesque one. Attached to every bull-ring in Spain is a private chapel for the use of bull-fighters. A toreador before he makes his entrance into the ring enters this chapel and offers up a prayer for his success and safe return. This is a solemn ritual in the dangerous life of the bull-fighter and one that he never misses. This short movement, which was originally written for four lutes, is a musical interpretation of a moving moment.

Contributors

Violin:
Dorothy Churton
Violin:
Gerald Emms
Violin:
Nora Wilson
Viola:
Edith Churton
Unknown:
Joaquin Turina

PEGGY COCHRANE (violin)
A successful novelty instrumental combination that has been introduced over the microphone is Frank Biffo 's Quintet, which consists of two trumpets, two trombones, and piano. Frank Biffo, who conducts his Quintet, is himself a well-known trumpet soloist who was once a member of the original Savoy Orpheans. The pianist and arranger is Guy Fletcher , who has had a wide experience of theatre orchestras and dance bands. The first trumpet is George Chappell , who was first with the Grenadier Guards, then Foden's Prize Band, and finally with Muscant's Orchestra. The second trumpet is Erid Todd , who comes from Manchester, where he started as a member of the ' Besses o' th' Barn ' band, and later played with Al Davison 's Orchestra and Van Dam 's Trocadero Orchestra.
The first trombone is Tony Mangan , who, in addition to playing with a number of London dance orchestras, was once a member of the Belfast Wireless Orchestra. His colleague is Stanley Wilson , who for many years played the trombone in the Scots Guards.
(All arrangements for the Quintet by Beaver and Fletcher)

Contributors

Violin:
Peggy Cochrane
Unknown:
Frank Biffo
Unknown:
Guy Fletcher
Unknown:
George Chappell
Unknown:
Erid Todd
Unknown:
Al Davison
Unknown:
Van Dam
Unknown:
Tony Mangan
Unknown:
Stanley Wilson

played by THE LAURANCE TURNER
STRING QUARTET :
Laurance Turner (violin) ; Walter Price (violin) ; Eric Bray (viola);
Jack Shineboume (violoncello)
Anne Wolfe
String Quintet in C (K.515)
I. Allegro ; 2. Minuetto ; 3. Andante; 4. Allegro

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurance Turner
Violin:
Laurance Turner
Violin:
Eric Bray
Viola:
Jack Shineboume
Unknown:
Anne Wolfe
Unknown:
I. Allegro

A Dramatic Chronicle
Broadcast in memory of Lord Kitchener, twenty years after his death
Conqueror and Peacemaker in the Sudan
Making War and Peace in South Africa
Organising the Defences of the Empire: India, Australia, New Zealand
Pharaoh's Councillor
Our Shield in Armageddon

The Cast includes:
Malcolm Keen as Lord Kitchener, and Norman Shelley, John Cheatle, Hermione Hannen, Gordon McLeod, Cyril Nash, Graveley Edwards, Harcourt Williams, Leslie Perrins, Philip Wade, Charles Mason, Carleton Hobbs, Joan Matheson, Leo Genn, Myrtle Richardson

See the article by Harold Temperley on page 15

Contributors

Compiled by:
Harold Temperley
Producer:
Laurence Gilliam
Lord Kitchener:
Malcom Keen
[Actor]:
Norman Shelley
[Actor]:
John Cheatle
[Actress]:
Hermione Hannen
[Actor]:
Gordon McLeod
[Actor]:
Cyril Nash
[Actor]:
Graveley Edwards
[Actor]:
Harcourt Williams
[Actor]:
Leslie Perrins
[Actor]:
Philip Wade
[Actor]:
Charles Mason
[Actor]:
Carleton Hobbs
[Actress]:
Joan Matheson
[Actor]:
Leo Genn
[Actress]:
Myrtle Richardson

Sea Communications
'Seen from the Bridge'
Capt. J. F. WEBSTER
In the last two talks Lord Essendon and Mr. Leslie Runciman have described the running of liners and tramps from the shipowner's angle. Tonight, Captain J. F. Webster will discuss the same subject from the standpoint of the senior officer and master.
Captain Webster served a four-years' apprenticeship in a four-masted barque, and spent eighteen months as second mate in Elder Dempster steamers. He then obtained his first mate's certificate and joined a steamer running between New York and the East. He left her in 1915 to join the Navy. After the war he joined the Blue Funnel Line, and has been with it ever since.
He has just returned from a voyage begun last November from Liverpool to New Orleans and th-n from Galveston with a cargo of cotton for Japan ; then down to the Philippine Islands, where he started loading homewards, and discharging the cargo at Havre and Liverpool.

Contributors

Unknown:
Capt. J. F. Webster
Unknown:
Mr. Leslie Runciman
Unknown:
J. F. Webster

Enrique Granados (1867-1916), one of the most gifted of Spanish composers, was also a conductor and a brilliant virtuoso pianist. He composed only a few major works, but numerous short piano pieces of a distinctive grace, charm, and national colour. In January, 1916, Granados's. opera Goyescas, which is based on his own series of piano pieces of the same title, which are musical illustrations of scenes from the paintings and tapestries of Goya, was produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. On his return to Spain in March, he lost his life on the ill-fated Sussex, which was torpedoed by a German submarine.

Contributors

Unknown:
Enrique Granados

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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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