Conductors' Comer
Donald Macleod looks at the careers of five 20th-century conductors. John Barbirolli. Giovanni Battista
Barbirolli was born in London, to an Italian father and a French mother.
He trained as a cellist, but quickly became one of the leading British conductors of his generation. His quarter-century with the Halle
Orchestra in Manchester was a great musical partnership. With excerpts from Barbirolli's recordings with the Halle of: Mahler Lieder eines Fahrenden
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Janet Baker (mezzo)
Vaughan Williams Symphony No 8 Elgar Introduction and Allegro