(Midland)

from the Floral Pavilion, Bridlington Le Regime

(Midland)

Directed by A. H. Morgan
(From West of England)

A programme illustrating the history of sonata form, by Basil Lam
' Schubert'

by Max Pirani
Rachmaninoff is the composer not merely of one unfortunately-never-to-be-forgotten Prelude, but pf no fewer than twenty-four preludes. In other words, he has written a prelude in every possible key, major and minor, like Bach, Chopin, and quite a number of other less distinguished composers.
Admittedly the C sharp minor was the earliest. It is one of a set of five piano pieces, Op. 3, written in 1892 when the composer was only nineteen. But nine or ten years later Rachmaninoff produced a set of Ten Preludes, numbered Op. 23. And in 1910 he completed the cycle of twenty-four keys with another set of Thirteen Preludes, Op. 32.

Alexander Kipnis (bass): Der
Erlkonig (The Erl King) (Schubert)
Sigrid Onegin (contralto): Das
Veilchen (The Violet) (Mozart)
Heinrich Schlusnus (baritone) :
Die beiden Grenadiere (The Two Grenadiers) (Schumann)
Elisabeth Schumann (soprano):
Heidenroslein (The Wild Rose) (Schubert)
Theodor Scheidl (baritone):
Drei Zigeuner (Three Gypsies) (Liszt)
Gerhard Hiisch (baritone): Tom the Rhymer (Loewe)

A short story by Anton Chekhov , read by Micheline Patton
Chekhov is mainly known to the English public as a dramatist ; it would be more correct to describe him as a short-story writer of genius who was also a talented playwright. Whatever he did to the play, he certainly brought about a revolution in the short story-freeing it from the ' event plot' and the convention of artificial form, and giving it a freedom and fluidity which have exercised an incalculable influence on the more serious of modern English story-writers.

and dance to the music of Stanley Barnett and his Band