Conductor, Sir DAN GODFREY
MONA LEIGH (Violin)
From THE PAVILION, BOURNEMOUTH
ALEXANDER GLAZOUNOV differs from his Hussian contemporaries in many ways, although his career has been passed in active unity with the ' new Russian School ' founded by Balakirev, Borodin. Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov. He is, for example, a symphonic composer, and has never been attracted to opera nor very much to songs. He lias, it is true, written ballets for the stage, but their main characteristics are of the instrumental type. He shows a preference, too, for classical forms, and is the one disciple of Brahms that the Russian School can boast. His work is chiefly remarkable for its harmonic brilliance and picturesque orchestration. Even Rimsky-Korsakov is not his superior in matters of orchestral colour. All Glazounov's later symphonies have been performed in this country, and of them, the sixth is the most popular, though the fourth runs it very close. It was first produced in England at a Royal Phil. harmonic concert in 1897 and has already been broadcast on several occasions. There are only three movements in place of the usual four, and no slow movement at all.