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Composer of the Week: Billy Mayerl

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

The War and the Final Years.
Donald Macleod looks at how the Second
World War transformed Billy Mayerl 's career, and how he changed direction. Mayerl's biographer,
Professor Peter Dickinson , discusses the influence and interest in Mayerl's music.
Fireside Fusiliers Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gary Carpenter Resting Richard Tauber (tenor) The Big Top; Winter Suite Eric Parkin (piano)
Caprinella Reginald Leopold (violin), Max Byfield (piano)
Moods in Contrast
Phillip Dyson (piano), BBC Concert
Orchestra, conductor Roderick Dunk Filigree Billy Mayerl (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Billy Mayerl
Unknown:
Professor Peter Dickinson
Conductor:
Gary Carpenter
Tenor:
Richard Tauber
Piano:
Eric Parkin
Violin:
Caprinella Reginald Leopold
Violin:
Max Byfield
Piano:
Phillip Dyson
Conductor:
Roderick Dunk
Piano:
Billy Mayerl
Source: Radio Times

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