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With Peggy Reynolds.
2: Stravinsky declared Lord Berners the most interesting British composer of the 20th century. But music was only one of his many pursuits. Another was entertaining fashionable guests in his Oxfordshire home, where his doves where painted all the colours of the rainbow and famous sculptures were put into the fishpond. Although very much the aristocratic dilletante, Berners was a fine composer whose works are only now coming back into fashion. Berners Fantaisie Espagnole Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, conductor Barry Wordsworth
Chopin Fantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op 66
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Walton Then Sing Aloud to God (Belshazzar's Feast)
London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Andre Previn Berners A Wedding Bouquet
(excerpt) RTE Chamber Choir, RTE
Sinfonietta, conductor Kenneth Alwyn

Contributors

Unknown:
Peggy Reynolds.
Conductor:
Barry Wordsworth
Conductor:
Chopin Fantaisie-Impromptu
Piano:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Conductor:
Andre Previn
Conductor:
Kenneth Alwyn

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