Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conducted by Peter Montgomery
Eileen Latimer (soprano)

Marek Weber and his Orchestra:
Leo Fall Pot-Pourri (arr. Dostal). Waltz, Danube Waves (Ivanovici)
New Light Symphony Orchestra:
The Unforgotten Melody (Haydn Wood). I pitch my lonely caravan (Eric Coates )
The Bohemians: Spring Serenade
(Lacombe). A Day in the Tyrol (Rorner Faun)

by Helen Guest
(Northern Programme)

Directed by John MacArthur
(Scottish Programme)

at the BBC Theatre Organ

Leader, Leonard Hirsch
Conductor, Eric Fogg
Haydn's so-called 'Clock' Symphony—No. 11 of the superb set of twelve symphonies written for the London impresario Salomon-was composed in 1794. Its nickname was obviously suggested by the slow movement, which is pervaded by a ' ticking ' figure in thirds. Bassoons and pizzicato strings have it first, and against this background the first violins play one of Haydn's most delightful melodies. The scoring is full of exquisite touches.
Nor are the other three movements at all inferior to this beautiful andante. Indeed the symphony as a whole is one of the finest of all pre-Beethovenian examples of the form.

Horace Lindrum v. Tom Newman
A commentary during play in the handicap competition by Willie Smith from Thurston's Hall

Directed by Rene Tapponnier from the Carlton Hotel, London

The BBC Midland Orchestra
Leader, Alfred Cave
Conducted by Leslie Heward

Reznicek
Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, son of an Austrian Field-Marshal, was born in Vienna in 1860. After studying at the Leipzig Conservatoire, he held various conducting posts, including those of Court Kapellmeister at Weimar and conductor of the Berlin Comic Opera. In 1920 he was appointed composition professor at the State High School for Music, Berlin.
Reznicek's Donna Diana, a three-act comic opera produced at Prague in 1894, is a light-hearted comedy of love in Barcelona. It tells the story of the conquest of the alcalde's cold-hearted daughter, Diana, by the toreador, Don Cesar.

Glazunov's Seventh Symphony
Glazunov composed his First Symphony in 1881, at the age of sixteen, and by 1904 had produced seven successors to it. Then he stopped composing symphonies ; during the last thirty years of his life - he died in 1936 - he wrote nothing at all in this form.
Glazunov's Seventh, completed in 1902, is thoroughly characteristic of his symphonic writing, never touching great heights or plumbing profound depths but always saying pleasant and charming things in the most delightful way. Glazunov is always lyrical and melodious; his scoring is delicious - the scherzo of this Symphony is a case in point; he was a superb technician, a sort of Russian Mendelssohn or Saint-Saens.
Fortunately he knew his limitations and the Seventh Symphony is a first-rate example of the purely lyrical type of symphony.