Jascha Horenstein
The first of two programmes featuring the conductor's revelatory performance of the music of Mahler. A pupil of Franz Schreker , Horenstein was a leading figure in the revival of Mahler's music in Britain, and his interpretation of the Symphony of a Thousand was, for many years, held up as a benchmark performance.
Buson! Berceuse Elegaique; Nocturne Symphonique; Clarinet Concertino Thomas Kelly (clarinet), RPO Mahler Symphony No 8
Agnes Giebel , Joyce Barker , Beryl Hatt (sopranos), Kerstin Meyer ,
Helen Watts (contraltos),
Kenneth Neate (tenor), Alfred Orda (baritone), Arnold van Mill (bass), BBC Chorus and Choral Society, Goldsmith's Choral Union, Hampstead Choral
Society, Emanuel School Boys Choir, Orpington Junior Singers, LSO