From a West-Country concert hall
Marie Wilson (violin)
G. Thalben-Ball (organ)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus Master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Orchestra (Section C)
Led by Marie Wilson
Conducted by Reginald Jacques
Bach-Handel programme
Reginald Jacques took the degree of Mus.Bac. at Queen's College, Oxford, where, in 1926, he became organist and later conductor of the Eagles-field Musical Society and of the Oxford Orchestral Society. In 1936 Jacques left Oxford to devote himself to conducting competition festivals and various concerts in London, including those of the Bach Choir, and in the same year he was appointed to the staff of the Royal College of Music and succeeded Sir Percy Buck as Musical Adviser to the L.C.C.
Since the war Jacques has been heard several times in the ' Music-Makers' Half-Hour ' series.