HARRY ISAACS (Pianoforte)
THE B.B.C. ORCHESTRA (Section F)
(Led by LAURANCE TURNER)
Conducted by VICTOR HELY-HUTCHINSON

SIBELIUS is more and more becoming popular as a composer of other things besides Finlandia and Valse Trials, and he begins to.be recognized universally, and not alone by practising musicians, as one of the most distinguished composers of his age. His symphonies have been more frequently performed in England during the last year than in all the years before, and it is being discovered that his music, so far from being outside the ken of average comprehension, is comfortably within it. It will not be long before Sibelius, who has already the esteem of tho larger public, may count also upon their affection.
Sibelius has composed a fair amount of incidental music to contemporary plays, and by reason of his keen sense of drama, always successfully. He has the gift of throwing himself into the period and environment of the play he is dealing with, so that his incidental music is as much an apt reflection of the dramatist as of the composer. It is so with this music to the play by Adolf Paul, a Swedish playwright. It was written, of course, for the theatre, but being the work of a symphonic writer, its natural permanent home is the concert room.