Nick Capaldi accordion solos
Noreen and Mario vocal duets
(Midland)

Artur Schnabel (pianoforte)
Sonata in A, Op. posth. (Schubert)
-1 Allegro ; 2 Andantino ; 3 Scherzo; 4 Rondo: Allegretto. Moment musical ift A flat, Op. 94, No. 6 (Schubert)
Schubert's Sonata in A is one of three written in September, 1828, only a couple of months before the composer's death, and published posthumously. Even at the end of his career Schubert's attitude to the keyboard was still very conservative (as in the slow movement of this sonata). Not a very good pianist himself, his keyboard compositions were largely conditioned by his own limitations, but within those limits he produced effects of remarkable beauty. The first movement, in particular, is full of SchubertiSn romanticism.
The final rondo has for its main theme a curious variant of a melody previously used in the A minor Sonata, Op. 164.

(Solo pianoforte, JACK WILSON)
(Midland)

Books'
John Betjeman
(To be repeated this evening : West
7.5)

Directed by Jack Hardy
(North)

Nellie White (soprano)
Joyce Gayford (contralto)
Reginald Forwood (tenor)
Frank Keyte (baritone)
The Four Singers first performed under that name in 1936. They have sung madrigals at Barber's Hall in the City of London-one of the few buildings surviving the Great Fire, and at an Elizabethan house in Kent.
Nellie White , soprano, studied under Miss Carrie Tubb and it was said of her by Fox Strangways , the music critic, that her ' incisive quality does for a madrigal what Elizabeth Schumann 's does for an opera
Joyce Gayford , contralto, studied at the Royal Academy of Music, and has conducted the choir at the Leith Hill Festival. Reginald Forwood , tenor, was a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral, and continued his studies at the Royal College of Music.
Frank Keyte , baritone, was a chorister at a City church, studied at the Royal Academy of Music, and is a lay clerk at Rochester Cathedral.

Czech Music

Conductor, Jack Atherton from the Harbour Bandstand,
Morecambe (Solo comet, FRANK HAIGH)
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Lina Pagliughi (soprano)

'Amateur Opera'
Dorothy G. Mason
(To be repeated this evening: Midland, 7.5)