Directed by Frank Cantell Dorothy Byrt (Contralto)
(Midland Regional Programme)

Directed by John Bridge
(North Regional Programme)

Directed by Walford Hyden
Walford Hyden , following out an idea he has long held, has formed a little band of ten players to perform a rather special type of music in a rather special way. He has chosen his ten instrumentalists very' carefully with particular regard to the instruments they play, and on paper the combination has an interesting but very puzzling appearance. But listeners will soon agree that Mr. Hyden has been very happy in his choice, and the more curious may even try to guess exactly of what instruments the band is composed. It is safe to wager that not one in a hundred will guess correctly. One other thing to note : a Magyar orchestra is not simply a band for playing Magyar music. Every kind of music, folk-music, gypsy music, light music, comes within the scope of a combination like this. After all, very few Magyars actually live in caravans to-day.

Relayed from The Queen's Hall, London
(Sole Lessees, Messrs. Chappell and Co., Ltd.)
THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA
Conductors,
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM and ILDEBRANDO PIZZETTI
Ildebrando Pizzetti , a trio by whom was heard in a programme of chamber music in January last,' has only recently become at all well known in this country, and even now we have a long way to go before we can have real opportunity to esteem him at his worth. In Italy he is considered as perhaps the most significant composer of the day. His opera, Debora c Jaele, which has been performed in most European countries and in America., is not only a beautiful work, but it shows Pizzetti to be a reformer-and . possibly a prophet with some remarkable ideas of what the future of opera may be. Yet in substituting a modern form of dramatic recitative for the former lyricism of Italian opera, he has, in the opinion of those who admire his work, happily succeeded in achieving merely another type of lyrical melodic beauty. Here, therefore, is an opportunity of appreciating his idiom and his methods, for the Rondo Veneziano is the first considerable work of Pizzetti to be performed in this country.

Moore, by DESMOND MACCARTHY

Here, briefly, is the history of Schubert's last and finest symphony. Written a few months before he died, in 1828 ; rehearsed in his lifetime but laid aside as too difficult; taken off the shelf by Schumann ten years later; first performed under Mendelssohn at a Gewandhaus concert in Leipzig, 1839 ; brought to London and laughed out-of the rehearsal room in 1844, it was first heard in England at the Crystal Palace in 1856. It is Schubert's longest and gayest symphony, an ordered riot of high spirits. It rushes along with the speed and abandon of a stream in flood, and, breaking its banks in the finale, throws itself into the sea at last with frenzied exhilaration. As a symphony it scarcely needs to be analysed; it can best be felt, and the listener who rides the rapid melodious flood for the first time is never likely to forget the experience nor rest till he has ridden it again.

GERALDO and his ORCHESTRA, followed by THE SAVOY HOTEL ORPHEANS, relayed from THE
SAVOY HOTEL