Directed by Sydney Phasey
from the New Victoria Cinema, Bradford

Alexandre Borowsky (pianoforte):
Variations in B flat (Mozart)
Ninon Vallin (soprano): L'Air,
D'une prison, La Delaissee (Hahn)
Jose Iturbi (pianoforte): Andante in F (Beethoven)

with Vernon Adcock (xylophone)

Scherzo is an Italian word meaning ' jest ' or ' joke ', and in a piece of music in sonata or symphony form the scherzo is usually the lightest of its movements. It was Beethoven who substituted the scherzo for the classical minuet which, up to his time, usually formed the third movement of a work in sonata style. Even Haydn's minuet movements had got further away from the dance form and anticipated the scherzo of Beethoven. The present series of programmes will show the development of the scherzo from its beginning, by way of Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, and Berlioz, up to its latest manifestations-Dukas's ' L'Apprenti sorcier ' and the scherzo movements of the symphonies of Vaughan Williams and William Walton.

from Claridge's Hotel

by Wilfrid Parry (pianoforte)
Wilfrid Parry studied at the Trinity College of Music, where he won the Chappell Gold Medal and was awarded a Fellowship for solo playing at the age of seventeen. After he had finished his studies he joined the teaching staff of Trinity College, but resigned after a few years to devote all his time to playing. A member of Gershom Parkington's Quintet, he has also appeared many times before the microphone as a soloist and in sonata recitals and chamber concerts. Many listeners will remember that in December, 1936, Mr. Parry gave the first broadcast performance with the BBC Orchestra of Haydn Wood's Piano Concerto.

Conductor, A. C. Richards
Eric Goldie (baritone)

Alexander Kipnis (bass): Mondnacht (Schumann). Traum durch die DSmmerung (Richard Strauss )
Dino Borgioli (tenor): Morgen
(Richard Strauss )
John McCormack (tenor) : La
Procession (Franck). Love's Secret (Bantock)