Recorded by Wilhelm Backhaus
(pianoforte)
Variations on an Original Theme,
Op. 21, No. 1. Ballade in D minor, Op. 10, No. 1 (Edward). Scherzo in E flat, Op. 4. Waltzes, Op. 39, Nos. 1, 2, 15
at the Organ of the Forum Cinema,
Southampton
Reginald Porter-Brown was teaching when he was twelve, and was choirmaster at sixteen.
His record on the air has been remarkable. Only twenty-seven now, he was the youngest of the four organists who opened the BBC Theatre Organ at St. George's Hall, London. In his five years of broadcasting he has made his signature tune, ' Oh, Mr. Porter', as famous as his name, and receives fan-mail from all over the world.
in ' Songs and Syncopation '
(West)
A short story written for broadcasting by H. B. Drake , and read by the author
Maggie Teyte (soprano): I'll follow my secret heart. Nevermore (Conversation Piece) (Coward)
Michael Bartlett (tenor): My heart will be dancing (Lilac Domino) (Grey, May)
Alice Moxon (soprano),
Stuart Robertson (baritone): A Paradise for Two (The Maid of the Mountains) (Tate)
at the Organ of the Granada, Tooting
Leader, Frank Thomas
Conductor, Idris Lewis
Robert Edwards (pianoforte)
' Bombet ' (which was one of ' Stendhal's ' other pseudonyms) was probably the first writer to relate the well-known story of the ' Surprise ' Symphony. ' When Haydn was in England', he records, ' he perceived that the English, who were very fond of his instrumental compositions when the movement was lively and allegro, generally fell asleep during the andantes and adagios, in spite of all the beauties he could accumulate. He therefore wrote an andante, full of .sweetness, and of the most tranquil movement; all the instruments seemed gradually to die away ; but, in the middle of the soft pianissimo, striking up all at once, and reinforced by a stroke of the kettle-drum, they made the slumbering audience start.' Ai Haydn himself said when he was showing the score to a friend, ' There all the women will scream.'
The well-known Dutch accordion duettists
Winifred Radford (soprano)
Ivy Herbert (pianoforte)
from the Continental Restaurant,
Bournemouth with Gerald Casson bass-baritone
Arthur Pond the scandalmonger
Renee Barr soprano
Peter Valerio the wonder accordionist
Eric Shrimpton
Spanish and electric guitars
Robert Keys syncopating pianist and Leonardi and his Wiener
Orchester
Presented by Leslie Bridgmont
