with Don Carlos

from the Orpheus Restaurant,
Belfast
Selecti (Soloist, JOYCE FORSTER )

by Arthur Alexander
Schumann's Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor occupied the composer about eight years. The second movement was written in June, 1830, the first and third in June, 1833, the fourth in its original form in 1835, then it was revised and completed in 1838, the whole sonata being published in 1839. It is often said that Schumann failed when writing in the larger and more extended musical forms. On the whole, this is probably true, but one of his most successful works is undoubtedly the G minor Piano Sonata, which is not only well written from a pianistic point of view but shows a wealth of invention and considerable imagination in the working out of the thematic material.

Margot Macgibbon (violin)
Frederick Jackson (pianoforte)
Brahms's Sonata in A is one of his most melodious and lyrical works. It was conceived while spending the summer of 1886 on Lake Thun. Brahms's friend, Widmann, wrote a little ballad on the music, describing the scenes that inspired the composer. The first verse, freely translated, runs: ' Where the Aar flows softly from the lake to the little town many beautiful trees cast their shadows. I lay deep in the long grass and slept, dreaming lovely dreams.'

at the Organ of the Granada Cinema,
Woolwich

with JUNE MALO and HUGH FRENCH from the Ritz Hotel