A further programme of the music to which she danced
THE B.B.C. ORCHESTRA .
(Section D)
(Led by LAURANCE TURNER )
Conducted by WALFORD HYDEN
ANNA PAVLOVA died a year ago last
January. Graduating from the Imperial Ballet, School in Petrograd, she became in the course of her subsequent world tours the most popular ballerina of her generation. For years she had travelled with her own company, and as often as her engagements permitted she ap- peared for a short season in London and the English provinces, making London her permanent home.
Walford Hyden , who directed the orchestra
"t all her later performances, travelled with her, and the music which he will conduct tonight is taken from items in the repertory with which he was for so long and so closely associated.
Of these items, the two excerpts from the Raymonda Ballet of Glazounov a.re now to he heard for the first time in Britain, an orchestral suite from that Ballet being the only part of the music already familiar to listeners. Tcherepnin's music is to the ballet based on Theophile Gautier 's famous story, The Mummy's Foot, in which an author who is using the dried foot of an Egyptian Princess as a paper-weight is surprised to receive as visitor the charming Princess herself in search of her lost foot, which she implores him to return to her. The Spanish Dance of Manuel de
Falla is from his opera La Vida Breve; the Persian Dance is from the ballet music of Mussorgsky's opera Khovantchina, which was heard in the Russian season at the Lyceum Theatre last year; the Prokofiev Scherzo is not a dance, and served in performance as an entr'acte; the suite from Lakme is drawn from the ballet music in the scene of the sacred grove in Delibes' opera on an Indian story; while the Tartar Dance is but one of many items composed by tonight's conductor and performed in the Pavlova programmes.
(In THE CONCERT HALL, BROADCAST
ING HOUSE)
ANNE THURSFIELD
(Mezzo-Soprano)
LIONEL TERTIS (Viola)
SOLOMON (Pianoforte)
L IONEL TERTIS, the British viola vir-
JJ tuoso with an international reputation has had a number of works for viola solo in combination with other instruments written specially for him by his numerous friends among contemporary composers.
This sonata is one such work. It was written ten years ago, and had much success in this country before it was selected for performance at the Festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music at Salzbnrg in 1924. The scnata is in three movements; the first is of great virility, the second has been variously described as satanic',' and as ' Pandora's Box,' and the third is quiet and almost wistful after the turbulent music which has preceded it.
LIONEL TERTIS and SOLOMON
Sonata in F minor. Op. 120, No. I Brahms
1. Allegro appasionato, sostenuto ed espressivo ; 2. Andante un poco adagio ; 3. Allegretto grazioso ; 4. Vivace
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