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Walter Gieseking (pianqforte):
Minuets 1 and 2, Gigue (Partita No. 1 in B flat) (Bach). Alia turca (Sonata in A) (K.331) (Mozart)
Charles Panzera (baritone), accompanied by Madame M. Panzera -Baillot: Les Berceaux (Fame). Chanson pour Ie petit cheval (de Severac). Soupir (Duparc)
Walter Gieseking (pianoforte):
Poissons d'or (Goldfish) (Images — Set 2, No. 3) (Debussy). Ondine (Gaspard de la Nuit, No. 1) (Ravel)

Contributors

Unknown:
Walter Gieseking
Baritone:
Charles Panzera
Unknown:
Madame M. Panzera
Pianoforte:
Walter Gieseking

Ⓓ from St. Paul's Cathedral
Older of Service
Psalms xli to xlifi
Lesson, Esther vi and vii
Magnificat (Walford Davies in G) Lesson, John xv
Nunc Dimittis (Walford Davies in G) Anthem, 0 Lord, increase my faith
(Gibbons)
(0 Lord, increase my faith, strengthen me and confirm me in Thy true faith ; endue me with wisdom, charity and patience, in all my adversity, sweet Saviour. Say Amen).
Hymn, The King of love my Shepherd is (E.H. 490)

Contributors

Unknown:
Walford Davies
Unknown:
Walford Davies

Twelve Studies. Op. 25 played by Iso Elinson (pianoforte)
A hundred years ago people hardly thought of a Study as a piece for concert performance. A Study, as its name implies, was a technical exercise. Some particular feature in which pianists were likely to need practice would be taken and a little piece written round that feature, using it over and over again. What Chopin did may be stated in a few words. He took the dry exercise and turned it into poetry.

with Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra

Victor Silvester, winner of a world dancing championship, is broadcasting fortnightly programmes of music for dancing. He has been associated with the Dancing World since he was demobilised at eighteen (he had joined the Army at the unripe age of fourteen). He has Gerry Moore and Eddie Macauley on pianos, Charles Stinelly on alto sax, Oscar Grasso as violinist, George Senior, bass, Ben Edwards, drums, and Rico de Stefano, piano accordion.
In every broadcast Silvester features a new dance, the swing step. 'Rhythmic Melody' is the key-note of his programmes.

Contributors

Unknown:
Victor Silvester
Unknown:
Gerry Moore
Unknown:
Eddie MacAuley
Pianos:
Charles Stinelly
Unknown:
Oscar Grasso
Violinist:
George Senior
Bass:
Ben Edwards

at Queen's Hall, London
(Sole Lessees, Messrs. Chappell and Co. Ltd.)

Bach
Freda Townson (contralto) Maurice Cole, John Hunt, Dorothy Manley, Myers Foggin (solo pianofortes)
The BBC Symphony Orchestra
(ninety players)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Sir Henry J. Wood

Concerto No. 2, in C, for two pianofortes and strings
1 Allegro. 2 Adagio ovvero largo. 3 Fuga: Allegro
(Solo pianofortes, Maurice Cole, John Hunt)
8.46 Aria, Strike at last, thou hour desired (Church Cantata No. 53, Schlage doch, gewunschte Stunde)
(Freda Townson)
8.57 Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F, for violin, three oboes, three bassoons, two horns and strings
1 Allegro. 2 Adagio. 3 Allegro. 4 Minuet ; First Trio ; Polacca ; Second Trio
9.19 Concerto in A minor, for four pianofortes and strings
1 Allegro. 2 Largo. 3 Allegro
(Solo pianofortes, Maurice Cole, John Hunt, Dorothy Manley, Myles Foggin)

Appeal of Bach's Music Bach is unique in that every other great composer from Haydn to Hindemith has paid homage to the qualities of his genius. At the same time he is no less a god to the plain man, which is a remarkable tribute to the varied and powerful appeal of his music as music, for it is quite uncoloured with those personal and romantic associations which have made Beethoven's C minor Symphony a symbol of 'Fate' and Chopin's Nocturnes a confession of 'Love'.
Popularising Bach
Sir Donald Tovey has called Bach 'a spectator of all musical time and existence'. He came at the end of a great period and summed up all that it stood for. It was because of this that his music found little favour with his younger contemporaries and immediate successors. For nearly a hundred years after his death the greater part of his works lay buried and forgotten. Their style was considered old-fashioned. It was not until 1829, when Mendelssohn revived the St. Matthew Passion, that Bach really came into his own. Of late years the Proms have undoubtedly done more to popularise Bach in England than any other concert organisation.

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Contributors

Contralto:
Freda Townson
Leader:
Paul Beard
Conducted By:
Sir Henry J. Wood
Pianofortes:
Maurice Cole
Pianofortes:
John Hunt
Unknown:
Freda Townson
Pianofortes:
Maurice Cole
Pianofortes:
John Hunt
Pianofortes:
Dorothy Manley
Unknown:
Sir Donald Tovey

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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