The Nancy Phillips Quartet: Nancy Phillips (violin) lean Ie Fevre (violin)
Eileen Grainger (viola) Lilly Phillips (violoncello) with Wilfrid Parry (pianoforte)
In the spring of 1918 Elgar went to live in a cottage at Fittleworth, Sussex, and his first creative impulse was to turn his attention for the first time to chamber music. The result was a sonata for violin and piano, a string quartet, and the piano quintet to be heard this morning. The Quintet is undoubtedly the best of these three works. It is designed on a larger scale and contains some of Elgar's most thoughtful music.
The BBC Singers (A)
Margaret Godley Bradbridge White Margaret Rees Martin Boddey Gladys Winmill Stanley Riley Doris Owens Samuel Dyson
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
At the pianoforte, John Wills
Lullaby and Willie Winkie Valentine
Hunting of the Snail To'other Little Tune Thomas and Annis
If all the Seas were one Sea The White Paternoster The Apology Old Woman A Tragedy
A Little Old Man
The Fly and the Humble Bee Bless You
An Old Cradle Song 0 My Little Sixpence
A short story written for broadcasting by Gerald Bullett and read by Ronald Watkins
Leader, Alfred Cave
Conductor, Leslie Heward from the Town Hall, Birmingham .
by Isabel Gray
(By permission of the Air Council)
Conducted by Squadron-Leader R. P. O'Donnell,
M.V.O.
Director of Music, Royal Air Force from the Royal Air Force Head-quarters, Uxbridge
The History and People of the River from the Welsh Border to the Sea
Recorded and dramatised by Robin Whitworth and Francis Dillon and jointly produced in the Midland and West of England Regions
(An electrical recording of the programme produced in the Regional, Midland, and Western programmes last night)
Interesting pictures of the River
Severn will be found on page 9
in the Moreton and Kaye manner
A peep into the musical future with Bettie Bucknelle
Ossie Noble and Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye at two pianos
Presented by George Gordon