The first in a series of programmes tracing the history of the orchestra from its beginnings to the present day.

Part 1
Conducted by Sir Edward Elgar
March: Pomp and Circumstance No 2, in A minor

11.5* Prelude (The Kingdom)

11.15* Overture: Cockaigne

11.36* Yehudi Menuhin recalls his impressions of Elgar's conducting and personality

11.40* BBC SO: Part 2
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Wagner Good Friday Music (Parsifal)

11.44* Tchaikovsky Serenade in C major, for string orchestra

(gramophone records)
(Colour feature: pages 8-9)