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A musical biography written and compiled by Wilfrid Rooke Ley
Music selected and the programme presented by Mark H. Lubbock with Moura Lympany (piano)
Sophie Wyss (soprano)
.. Programme continued overlef
BBC Theatre Chorus
(trained by Charles Groves)
BBC Theatre Orchestra
Leader, Tate Gilder
Conductor, Stanford Robinson
Following the success of the recent musical biography ' Tchaikovsky-the Man and his Music ' comes the present biography of Grieg, which is being presented by Mark Lubbock. He has selected the music himself, and the story of the composer's life is the work of Wilfrid Rooke Ley.
The music of Grieg that you' will
-hear in the course of the biography includes incidental music from Ibsen's Peer Gynt, a movement of the A minor Piano Concerto, one of the two elegiac pieces for strings, Norwegian dances, and ' Homage march '.

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilfrid Rooke Ley
Presented By:
Mark H. Lubbock
Piano:
Moura Lympany
Soprano:
Sophie Wyss
Leader:
Tate Gilder
Conductor:
Stanford Robinson
Presented By:
Mark Lubbock.

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