Regional Programme London is a radio channel.

Regional Programme

Regional 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.

Regional Programme London

London

THE DAILY SERVICE

Daventry National Programme

The Children's Hour

' The First News'

WEATHER FORECAST, FIRST GENERAL NEWS 
BULLETIN; London Stock Exchange Report, Football Results, Bulletin for Farmers

Regional Sports Bulletin

The Wireless Military Band

Conducted by B. WALTON O'DONNELL 
BILLY MAYERL (Pianoforte)

Chanteys and Sea Songs

Collected and arranged by HOWARD CARR 
THE WIRELESS MALE VOICE CHORUS 
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON 
ERNEST LUSH , at the Pianoforte 
A-roving 
Rio Grande 
Come, loose every Sail 
Whisky ! 
Blow, Boys, blow Hanging 
Johnny Blow the Man down 
Sally Brown 
Sling the flowing Bowl A Jug of this 
Blow, ye Winds Ben Backstay 
Three poor Mariners 
The Mermaid 
Dorothy's a buxom Lass Homeward bound 
High Barbaree One more Day

Reading

Chamber Music

JOHN ARMSTRONG (Tenor) GEORGE ROTH (Violoncello) 
VICTOR HELY-HUTCHINSON (Pianoforte)   
SEVERAL of Kodaly's important works have already been heard by B. B.C. listeners ; his is a very individual and original idiom which, no doubt, owes something to his enthusiasm for the national folk music of Hungary. Since his interest in it was first aroused, he has collected over 3,500 folk tunes, many of them taken down from the singing of peasants in remote parts of the country. His work in that direction has been of the utmost value from the patriotic point of view, and has added enormously to the world's store of genuine old folk music, 
Kodaly is distinguished not only in that way, and, as a composer; he has contributed much of real value to the literature of music. His sonata for violoncello and pianoforte was composed in 1909 and 1910, at the same time as the first string quartet, which has been broadcast : Kodaly was then twenty-eight. It is tempestuous music, dramatic and eloquent of warring passions. The first movement-there are only two—is called Fantasia : for the most part tragic in mood, its fierce emotion is lightened more than once by a delicate charm. The second, like a dance in sonata form, begins in real folk-song style : but here, too, striving and unrest can be heard, interrupting the wholesome vigour of the dance-rhythm, and, at the end, there is a reminder of the. tragic theme of the first movement. 
ERNST VON DOHNANYI was only twenty when lie made his first appearance as a concert pianist, stepping at once into the very front rank. A year later, having won laurels in all the principal music centres of Germany and Austria-Hungary, he appeared with no less success in this country, and, in 1899, in the United States. As a composer he was known at first by his fresh and attractive music for his own instruments ; for a good many years, however, he has been steadily gaining wider recognition as a composer of orchestral and chamber music, and for the stage. Although making comparatively little use of actual folk tunes, most of his music is strongly characteristic of his native Hungary ; it is all distinguished not only by very able craftmanship, but by a genuine gift of invention, flavoured with a happy sense of laughter. That is heard unmistakably in the last movement of his sonata for violoncello and pianoforte, where themes from the other movements are used in the happiest way as figures in a set of variations. The first movement, majestic and imposing, has something of Brahms' solid dignity, but the lively Scherzo at once makes it clear that tragedy is not the theme of this fresh and bracing work.

The Second News

Weather Forecast, Second General News Bulletin

Regional News

DANCE MUSIC

AMBROSE and his ORCHESTRA, from THE MAY 
FAIR HOTEL

Regional Programme Northern is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 17th May 1931.

Regional Programme Northern

Regional Programme Scotland is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 13th September 1931. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

Regional Programme Scotland

THE DAILY Service

A Band Concert

Regional Programme Midland is a radio channel.

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