Erich Gruenberg (violin)
BBC Scottish Orchestra
(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conducted by Alexander Gibson
Berthold Goldschmidt has written a number of large-scaie works including the opera Beatrice Cenci (awarded a prize in the Arts Council's Festival of Britain Competition). His Violin Concerto,tonight receiving its first performance, was completed in 1952 A short introduction leads into a brisk Allegro; tihe slow movement is marked Andante amoroso; rhe finale is a graceful Gigue which (in the words of the composer) ` ends on a whimsical note.'
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by Franz Bergel, D.SC., F.R.I.C.
Professor of Chemistry,
Institute of Cancer Research,
University of London
From a study of normal growth and the factors controlling it, Professor Berget hopes that it will be possible to throw l.ght on the abnormal and so elucidate the processes that produce disease and suffering
An operetta in one act
Libretto by Leon Battu and Ludovic Halevy
Music by CHARLES LECOCQ
Bizet's version of ' Le Docteur Miracle will be broadcast at 8.40. The details given below are the same for both operettas.
(sung in French)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Leader. David McCallum )
CONDUCTED BY STANFORD ROBINSON
Produced by Jacques Brunius
The action takes place in a room in the Mayor's house during the Middle Ages.
Talk by Norman Gibbs
The War in France and Flanders, 1939-40, the second volume of the official History of the Second World War, has recently been published. Norman Gibbs, Ohichele Professor of Military History at Oxford, comments on it in the perspective of the many campaigns over the same territory in which Great Britain has been involved during several centuries.
An operetta in one act
Libretto by Léon Battu and Ludovic Halevy
Music by GEORGES BIZET
See 7.25 p.m.
(* Le Premier Train pour l'Inconnu ')
A radio drama by Michel Arnaud
English version and production by E. J. King Bull
Characters in order of speaking:
Dennis Brain (horn)
Denis Matthews (piano)
