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Music on 2: Edinburgh International Festival

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The first appearance outside North America of the brilliant Chicago Symphony Orchestra under their chief conductor Georg Solti

The programme consists of:
Mendelssohn Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Brahms Symphony No 1, in C minor
Part of a concert given in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, on 4 September
Introduced by Tom Fleming

"Is the Chicago Symphony the greatest orchestra in America? Stravinsky has said so, and it was impossible not to agree with him when this orchestra appeared under the baton of Georg Solti" (New Yorker)
(This Week's Sounds: page 13)

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Fleming
Musicians:
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Georg Solti
Director:
Antony Craxton
Source: Radio Times

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