a: the Organ of the Gaumont Palace
Cinema, Birmingham

Aria Mit 30 Veranderungen
(Goldberg Variations)
(Bach)
Wanda Landowska (harpsichord)
The Goldberg Variations are one of the greatest examples of this form written for the piano. Bach wrote this set for Goldberg, who was a brilliant harpsichord player. Sir Donald Tovey , has said of these Variations that they ' are not only thirty miracles of variation-form and counterpoint, but are a single miracle of consummate art as a whole composition. If the listener expects to recognise the air in the variations, either as a tune or as represented by its bass, he will misdirect his attention as fatally as if the statement that Michelangelo has a consummate grasp of anatomy were to lead him to study that master's work with an X-ray apparatus in one hand and a Quain's " Anatomy " in the other

Conductor, William Pethers
from the New Hippodrome Theatre, Coventry

at the BBC Theatre Organ

Conductor, Herbert Bennett from the Empire Exhibition (Scotland)

An impression in sound of the North-East Coast Fishing Industry
Recorded at the Aberdeen Fish
Market
Under the direction of Alan Melville
This programme will tell the story of the fish sold at the Aberdeen Fish Market, one of the most important centres of the white fish industry in Great Britain, from the time they are caught right up to the moment when they are served at the breakfast table the following morning. Recordings have been made of the landing of a catch, the sales, the curing, and the dispatch to markets in the South.
Among those whose work will be described, and who will speak themselves, are a fisherman, a fish salesman, a fish curer, a 'fish merchant, a scientist from the Fishery Board Research Station, a shopkeeper, and a housewife.
(From Scottish)
See the article by Alan Melville on page 10

Leader, Alfred Cave
Conducted by Leslie Heward

Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham , Bart. : Brigg Fair (An English Rhapsody) (Delias)
Queen's Hall Orchestra, conducted by Sir Henry J. Wood : Fantasia on Greensleeves (Vaughan Williams)