with Leonard Bernstein
A programme featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra leader RODNEY FRIEND to mark the 50th anniversary of Elgar's death on 23 February 1934.
Television cameras switch back and forth between rehearsal and performance watching LEONARD BERNSTEIN creating his own very personal interpretation of the Enigma Variations which Elgar's biographer Michael Kennedy has described as the greatest piece of orchestral music ever written by an Englishman.
...a a different trans-Atlantic approach to those old West Country friends of ours, occasionally disconcerting, but put across with conspicous concern for orchestral colours and textures. (STANDARD) (Rehearsal highlights shown in Omnibus) Vision mixer ANGELA WlLSON
Concert recorded at the Royal Festival Hall Director PETER BUTLER
Producer HUMPHREY BURTON
(Programme includes new material)
(Concert sponsored by Laskys in association with JVC)
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