Tito Schipa (tenor): Sento nel cor (In my Heart) (Alessandro Scarlatti). Nina (Pergolesi). Mu! Mu! (Moo, moo) (Bellini). Aimant la rose, le rossignol (The Rose enslaves the Nightingale) (Rimsky-Korsakov)
A Variety Orchestra of P.T.T.
Conductor. Georges Derveaux from Paris
Royal Air Force Band, conducted by Flt.-Lt. Amers: Songs of Britain
Band of H. M. Coldstream
Guards, conducted by Lt. J. C. Windram : Old Panama (Alford). Selection, Florodora (Stuart)
Royal Air Force Band, conducted by Flt.-Lt. Amers: Turkish Patrol March (Michaelis)
at the BBC Theatre Organ
A Musical ABC
The Marriage of Figaro
(Mozart)
An abridged version from the complete recording by the Glyndeboume Festival Opera Company, directed by Fritz Busch
Harold H. Saunders
Harold Saunders is a conjuror by profession and a member of the Inner Magic Circle. He will tell listeners what little is known about the early history of juggling and conjuring, and will show how as time went on the attitude of the public and of the powers-that-be gradually changed. He will describe some of the ferocious penalties that were formerly inflicted on members of what is now an honourable profession.
The BBC Midland Orchestra
Leader, Alfred Cave
Conducted by Leslie Heward
Much less often played than the popular Second Symphony in B minor, Borodin's First Symphony is in some respects an even finer work. Its first movement is one of the most remarkable in the whole history of the post - Beethoven symphony, practically the whole of the thematic material being stated in the first few bars of the slow introduction. The other three movements-the Berliozian scherzo with its folk-songish trio, the oriental slow movement, the breezy, though rather Schumannesque, finale-if by no means as original, are equally delightful.
It is almost incredible that this symphony was the work of a self-taught amateur, though it is true that Balakirev claimed that ' every bar of it was criticised and overhauled by me '. It was begun in 1862 but not completed until 1867.
