Rve Great Collectors
With Donald Macleod.
4: William Hesketh Lever
William Hesketh Lever became Lord
Leverhulme and was an art collector on a scale unmatched by anyone since his death in 1925. The founder of Lever Brothers acquired his wealth from a single product: soap. His success in its manufacture and marketing enabled him to set up an art collection in Liverpool, the Lady Lever Gallery, which today houses not just paintings but objets d'art acquired by Lever from all over the world. Music includes:
Grainger Country Gardens
Eastman-Rochester Pops Orchestra, conductor Frederick Fennell
Florent Schmitt The War Pact
(Salammbo) Choir of the French Army, Orchestra of the He de France, conductor Jacques Mercier
John Field Marche Triomphale Miceal O'Rourke (piano)
Handel Cara Pianta (Apollo e Dafne) Michael George (bass), Collegium Musicum 90, director Simon Standage
Oswald The Seasons (excerpts) Broadside Band, director Jeremy Barlow
Salnt-Saens Pha éton, Op 39
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, conductor Lorin Maazel
Mozart Masonic Funeral Music,
K477 Vienna Volksoper Orchestra, conductor Peter Maag