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Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack
The music of Handel, arranged by Hamilton Harty
The Royal Fireworks Music
1 Overture. 2 Alia siciliana. 3 Bourree. 4 Minuetto
Polonaise, Arietta, and Passacaglia The Royal Water Music
1 Allegro. 2 Air. 3 Bourree. 4 Hornpipe. 5 Andante. 6 Allegro deciso

Contributors

Leader:
J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor:
Guy Warrack
Arranged By:
Hamilton Harty

from the Carlton Hotel

Show Boat - Kern
Sag' beim Abschied meise - Kreuder
Life is nothing without music - Hartley
Spitzbub (Rascal) - Rixner
Kissing Serenade - Michaeli
Puszta Serenade - Feynes
Etude in E - Chopin, arr. Gardner
Home at Sundown - Gilbert, arr. Byfield
Hungarian Serenade - Joncieres
Lovely Debutante - Noiret
Cuban Serenade - Midgeley
Fleurette d'amour - Fletcher
Where green rushes grow - P. Harding
My Own - McHugh
Neapolitan Serenade - Winkler

An anti-romantic comedy by Bernard Shaw to be broadcast in three parts
Cast (by permission of Firth Shephard)
The action takes place in Major Petkoff's house in a small town near the Dragoman Pass, Bulgaria, late in the year 1885
Part 1 takes place in Raina's bedroom
Production by John Richmond
Although one of his very earliest plays-it was written in 1895-Arms and the Man is considered by many to be the most entertaining Shaw ever wrote. It was the first of G. B. S.'s 'Pleasant Plays', which include Candida, The Man of Destiny, and You Never Can Tell. Set in the Balkans of the middle
'eighties, the play moves with characteristic Shavian wit through the intrigues of those troublous countries, having as its aim a realistic onslaught on the political and religious idealism of those times.
Part 2 of Arms and the Man will be broadcast in the National programme on Tuesday, April 18, and Part 3 on Friday, April 21.
(Empire Programme)

Contributors

Comedy By:
Bernard Shaw
Production By:
John Richmond
Catherine Petkoff...:
Margery Caldicott
Raina:
Peggy Ashcroft
Louka:
Dorice Fordred
Bluntschli:
Barry Jones
A Russian Officer:
James Donald

Variations on a theme of Corelli,
Op. 42 played by Joan Boulter (pianoforte)
This set of twenty Variations on a Theme of Corelli written in the summer of 1932 and dedicated to Fritz Kreisler , is one of the most important of Rachmaninoff's more recent works. Several of the variations foreshadow others in the later
' Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini ' for piano and orchestra.
The theme is not actually by Corelli but is the famous sixteenth-century Portuguese dance tune, known as ' La Folia', or 'Folies d'Espagne', on which Corelli himself wrote a celebrated set of variations. The tune has also been used by Vivaldi, Lully, Pergotesi, Bach, Gretry, and Cherubini.

Contributors

Pianoforte:
Joan Boulter
Unknown:
Fritz Kreisler

Descriptions of the Commonwealth today, recorded in Australia and introduced by Michael Terry
6-' Books and Writing'
Walter Murdoch , C.B.E.,
Professor of English, University of Western Australia
(The series arranged in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting
Commission)
Professor Murdoch was horn in Aherdeenshire, Scotland, in 1874. At the age of ten he went to Australia, where he was educated at the Scotch College, Melbourne, and at Melbourne University. He was school-master for some years in Victoria, and was later appointed Lecturer on English Literature at the University of Melbourne. Since 1912 he has held the Chair of English at the University of Western Australia. Professor Murdoch has contributed many articles to newspapers, and has published several school books and volumes of essays. He is also editor of the ' Oxford Book of Australasian Verse

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Terry
Unknown:
Walter Murdoch

Adapted from the film 'Alerte en Mediterranee' by Horton Giddy
Produced by Peter Creswell
Cast (by permission of Drury Lane Theatre)
Also: A bartender, a Police Commissioner, a police court usher, an English Admiral, officers, signalmen, sailors, waiters, a quartermaster, etc. Played by: Leslie Bradley, M. Landale, Geoffrey Wincott, Eric Berry, Paul Vernon, John Blythe, Kenneth Barton, Lindesay Baxter, Patrick Devitt
Scene: The international port of Tangier, Morocco
Time: The present
Alerte en Mediterranee, which has been recently shown in this country, was one of the outstanding French film productions of last year. It has a particularly topical significance both in its treatment of the Mediterranean problem and in its endeavour to prove that however much countries may differ politically, there can be no fundamental difference between individuals representative of them.
When the play opens three warships are lying in the harbour of Tangier, one British, one French, one German. While shore-leave has been granted to the ratings who are exploring the town, the captains of each of the three ships find their way to the bar of the principal hotel. A disagreeable incident occurs to bring out in each strong nationalistic feeling, which is eventually sunk when all three find themselves committed to the common cause of humanity in an heroic mission of rescue.

Contributors

Produced By:
Peter Creswell
Played By:
Leslie Bradley
Played By:
M. Lan
Unknown:
Geoffrey Wincott
Unknown:
Eric Berry
Unknown:
Paul Vernon
Unknown:
John Blythe
Unknown:
Kenneth Barton
Unknown:
Lindesay Baxter
Unknown:
Patrick Devitt
Lieutenant-Commander Falcon, R.N., commanding H M S Wasp (a destroyer):
Geoffrey Toone
Mrs Falcon, his wife:
Iris Baker
Freddy, their son:
Robin Maule
Frigattenkapitan von Schlieden, com manding the German destroyer Adler:
Olaf Olsen
Capitaine de Frigate Duplessis, com manding the French destroyer Fortune:
George de Warfaz

Leader, W. H. Reed
Conductor, Julian Clifford
Orrea Pernel (violin)

This is one of five concertos Mozart wrote in 1775. Each, like the older Vivaldi type of violin concerto, consists of three movements, but in almost every other respect Mozart advanced far beyond his predecessors in this field. The opening tuttis with their quite symphonic statements of material, for instance, sounded a new note.
Variations on a theme of Haydn (Chorale St. Antonii) Brahms

In November, 1870, Brahms's friend, C.F. Pohl, author of the great standard biography of Haydn, showed him a curious and little-known work by the eighteenth-century master: a Feldpartita in B flat written in the 1780's for Prince Esterhazy's military band. It is scored for two oboes, two horns, three bassoons, and serpent. Brahms was immediately impressed by the work ; he copied into a note-book the second movement, entitled 'Chorale St. Antonii'. But the variations by which he made that Chorale one of the world's best-known melodies were not written till the summer of 1873.

Contributors

Conductor:
Julian Clifford
Violin:
Orrea Pernel

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