Budapest Quartet: Quartet in B flat, Op. 130 (Beethoven)-l Adagio ma non troppo-Allegro. 2 Presto. 3 Andante con moto. 4 Alia danza tedesca. 5 Cavatina: Adagio molto espressivo. 6 Grosse Fuge (Op. 133) (Original Finale)
from the Hippodrome, Blackpool
Douglas Duff
In this second talk Douglas Duff will deal more particularly with the historical associations between the West Country and Palestine.
(From West of England)
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conductor, Walton O'Donnell
Few musicians have had so adventurous a life as William Vincent Wallace, composer of Maritana. His father was a military bandmaster, and the young Wallace was born in Waterford, Ireland, in 1812. Much of his early manhood was spent in Australia, farming and fiddle-playing, and later in many parts of the world. In 1845, however, he was again in London, and someone seems to have suggested to him that he should compose an opera. Maritana was the result; it appeared near the end of 1845 and was an immediate and assured success. In 1860 his opera Lurline was produced at Covent Garden.
Margaret Roux (soprano)
The Pirani Trio:
Leila Pirani (violin)
Charles Hambourg (violoncello)
Max Pirani (pianoforte)
MARGARET ROUX
Six Songs by Wolf:
Begegnung (The Meeting)
Wiegenlied in Winter (Winter
Lullaby)
Das verlassene Magdlsin (The
Deserted Maiden)
Geh' geliebter, geh' jetzt (Go now, beloved)
Zur Ruh , zur Ruh (To rest, to rest) Er ist's (Song to Spring)
2.33 TRIO
Smetana, the father of Czech music, wrote only four chamber works: two string quartets, the Piano Trio in G minor, and a Sonatina for violin and piano. The composer dedicated his G minor Trio, which was written in 1885, ' in memory of our eldest child, Frederica, whose rare musical talent gave us such delight ; too early snatched from us by death at the age of four-and-a-half years'.
(by permission of the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis)
Conducted by Flight-Lieut. J. H. Amers, M.B.E., Director of Music
A short story by Katherine Mansfield , read by Molly Cullen
When she died in 1923 at the early age of thirty-five, Katherine Mansfield left a niche in English letters which it seems likely will never be filled. To the art of the short story she brought the peculiar genius of one who, in the words of her husband, J. Middleton Murry , ' seemed to adjust herself to life as a flower adjusts itself to the earth and to the sun '. Though by no means a cynic at heart Katherine Mansfield might be said to have done for English letters what Guy de Maupassant did for the literature of his country. There was no shade of human feeling, none of the tragicomic aspects of human relationship, which seemed to pass her by. There is no doubt that ' A Dill Pickle' in its subtly poignant analysis of a simple human situation is an example of this author at her best.
Excerpts from ' Don Carlos '. (Verdi)
Alexander Kipnis (bass): Ella giammai m'amo (She has never loved me)
Gertrud Riinger (soprano): 0
Don fatale (0 fatal gift)
Hans Reinmar (baritone): Per me giunto (Rodrigo's Death). (All sung in German)
