The BBC Orchestra
(Section C)
Led by Laurance Turner
Conducted by Joseph Lewis
Gwen Catley (soprano)
While in Germany in 1836, when he was twenty years of age, Sterndale Bennett wrote his overture ' The Naiads', which was inspired by a trip up the Rhine. It was actually written, however, in England while staying at Grantchester, a village on the river near Cambridge. Bennett then took the score to Leipzig where it received its first performance under Mendelssohn at a Gewandhaus
Concert. It is dedicated to the Royal Academy of Music where the composer studied.