10 FEBRUARY 1933, Page 32

Wagner died fifty years ago next Monday. The day itself

goes by without any celebration concert-so far as broad- casting is concerned ; but the Sunday evening Orchestral Concert is to be devoted to a programme of extracts from The Mastersingers. Schnabel plays the " Emperor " Concerto on Wednesday night. On Friday there is another of the Concerts of Contemporary Music : this time devoted to some recent English chamber-music by Benjamin Britten, Christian Darnton and Eric Chisholm-all new names to the majority of us. And on Monday we shall hear part of the second of the new series of B.B.C. Chamber Concerts, including a performance of Alban Berg's Lyric Suite.

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