(Section B)
Leader, ARTHUR CATTERALL
Conductor, ADRIAN BOULT
Although the pupil (for composition ++and organ) of Cesar Franck , Vincent d'Indy ' allowed himself to be influenced only by the more admirable characteristics of his master's art. For instance, d'Indy's musical idiom is singularly free from the chromatic excesses in which Franck indulged. No doubt d'Indy's deep study of mediaeval music gave him that austerity and archaic purity which are not the least refreshing qualities of his musical style. His finest works, if not mystical in feeling, possess what one might term an ' open-air' freshness and vitality, such as his First Symphony, 'The Symphony on a Mountaineer's Song ', and his Second Symphony which appeared nineteen years later in 1905, 'A Summer Day in the Mountains '.