Symphony No. 1, in C played by the BBC Scottish Orchestra
(Leader J. Mouland Begbie )
Conductor, Ian Whyte
Balakirev, besides guiding and inspiring the Russian nationalist musicians (including Mussorgsky, Borodin, and Rimsky-Korsakov), was an important composer in his own right. His Symphony in C was produced in 1898. It opens with an introduction marked Largo based on the main theme of the Allegro vivo that follows. The Scherio, in A minor, is succeeded by an Andante in D flat in which a solo clarinet has an appealing melody accompanied by harp and strings. The finale, Allegro moderato, contains several folk-tunes. one of which Balakirev heard sung by a blind beggar while he was travelling on the Finnish railway. Harold Rutland
Talk by W. E. Le Gros Clark , F.R.S., D.SC., F.R.C.S., Professor of Anatomy in the University of Oxford
Second of seven programmes,
Klnderscenen
Sonata in F sharp minor. Op. 11 played by Solomon (piano)
First of six programmes of music by Schumann .
A play by Mary Frances Flack
Revised for broadcasting by the author
Scene: Tel-Aviv during the year 1947
Production by E. J. King Bull
(1700-1840)
Thornhill and the Baroque by J. Isaacs
J. Isaacs talks about the ' epic ' paintings of Sir James Thornhill and their relation to the aesthetics of seventeenth-century continental baroque art, and about such foreign artists working in England as Antonio , Verrio Louis Laguerre. and Sebastiano Ricci.
First of a series of talks, which is introduced in a paragraph on page 3
Elsie Suddaby (soprano)
Anne Wood (contralto)
John Kentish (tenor)
Philip Hattey (bass-baritone)
Continuo: Geraint Jones (harpsichord and organ) and Raymond Clark (cello)
BBC Chorus (Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate)
Philharmonia String Orchestra (Leader, Manoug Parikian)
Conducted by Trevor Harvey
Vater unser
O quam tu pulchra es
Selig sind die Toten
Frohlocket mit Handen
Unser Keiner lebet ihm selber
Mein Sohn, warum hast du uns das gethan
(Previously broadcast on Sunday)
(John Kentish broadcasts by permission of the Governors of Sadler's Wells)
A programme of readings to accompany the talk by J. Isaacs
Readers: Lockwood West and Charles E. Stidwill
String Quartet No. 2 played by the Aeolian Stning Quartet:
Alfred Cave (violin)
Leonard Dight (violin) Watson Forbes (viola)
John Moore (cello)
Sheep
Talk by Dr. Allan Fraser , of Aberdeen University
Dr. Fraser follows up Sunday's talk on cattle by W. A. Stewart and considers the vicissitudes of the sheep industry in Scorland. These talks together review S Aland's position as the natural store country of Britain.
