Conductor, Charles Shadwell
Relayed from the Hippodrome Theatre, Coventry
A Radio Ramble with Robey
Schemed and Scribbled by GEORGE ROBEY and RUPERT HAZELL with ELSIE DAY
RUPERT HAZELL
MARIO DE PIETRO and GEORGE ROBEY HIMSELF
(By arrangement tcith Blanche Littler)
At the Piano, JACK UPSON
THE B B C VARIETY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST LONGSTAFFE
'Here's George' was broadcast in the National programme on Friday
Conductor, TOM MORGAN
FRANK TITTERTON (tenor) BAND FRANK TITTERTON BAND (First Performance) FRANK TITTERTON BAND
Russian chamber music is a younger growth than Russian opera or Russian orchestral music. Glinka's essays in this genre have failed to keep a place in the repertoire, and it may be said that serious Russian chamber music begins with Tchaikovsky's first 'two quartets (1871 and 1874) and Borodin's magnificent Quartet in A (1875).
Borodin's Second Quartet in D was written four or five years after its predecessor and published only after the composer's death in 1887. It is a delightful thing, as full of limpid melody
-' linked sweetness long drawn out '— as anything of Schubert's. The third movement, a languorous nocturne, is often played as a separate piece. The finale is definitely stamped as Borodin's by the opening theme on the lower strings ; it is marked by the same peculiar little melodic twist as the opening theme of his B minor Symphony.