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Under the direction of Johan Hock from Queen's College Chambers
Lecture Hall, Birmingham
A violin and pianoforte recital
Olive Zorian and Denis Matthews
Both Busoni's sonatas for violin and piano are in the key of E minor. The first (Op. 29), written in 1891, won him the Rubinstein Prize at Helsingfors. The second, Op. 36a, dates from ten years later. 'Though distinctly reminiscent of Brahms in its thematic material', writes Cecil Gray, 'it is most brilliantly written for both instruments, and concludes with a number of variations on a Bach choral which, more than anything else in his early work, foreshadows the great change about to take place in the composer, the transition period of experiment from which the mature Busoni emerged much later'.
Brahms's Sonata Movement
The Sonata Movement in C minor is a vigorous scherzo forming the third movement of the violin and piano sonata which was composed by Dietrich (first movement) Schumann, and Brahms (third movement) 'in anticipation of the arrival of our beloved and honoured friend, Joseph Joachim'.
The whole sonata was broadcast for the first time on July 30 last year.

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Matthews
Unknown:
Both Busoni
Unknown:
Cecil Gray
Unknown:
Joseph Joachim

The opera by Verdi from the Glyndebourne Festival
Opera House
The action takes place in Scotland
Act 1
Scene 1: A heath
Scene 2 : A courtyard in Macbeth's castle
Cast in order of appearance
Witches, apparitions, messengers, servants, exiles, soldiers
The Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
The Glyndebourne Festival
Orchestra
Conductor, Fritz Busch
Producer, Carl Ebert
See the short article by C. B. Rees on page 16
Act 2 will be broadcast in the Regional programme at 8.0, and Acts 3 and 4 in the National programme at 10.0 and 10.30

Contributors

Conductor:
Fritz Busch
Producer:
Carl Ebert
Unknown:
C. B. Rees
Macbeth:
Francesco Valentino
Banquo:
David Franklin
Lady Macbeth:
Margherita Grandi
Servant to Macbeth:
Cuthbert Matthews
Macduff:
David Lloyd
Lady-in-Waiting:
Constance Willis
Malcolm:
Eric Starling
A doctor:
Robert Rowell

by Damon Runyon
Adapted for broadcasting by Dick O'Connor
This is the first of a series of radio adaptations from Damon Runyon. A year or two ago this slick American writer took Britain by storm with his strangely mannered style and his stories of New York low life told in the Broadway idiom.
'Bloodhounds of Broadway' is a story in which Runyon is at his best, and laughs should not be wanting in this fabulous tale of the long trail through many most inconvenient places of two man-tracking bloodhounds.

Contributors

Author:
Damon Runyon
Adapted for broadcasting by:
Dick O'Connor
Producer:
Laurence Gilliam

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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