Ruggiero Ricci (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader. Paul Beard )
Conducted by Sir Eugene Goossens
Part 1
Conrad Beck , who is on the music staff of Radio Zurich, was born in 1901; he studied at the Zurich Conservatoire, and during the nineteen-twenties lived in Paris, where he was associated with Roussel and Honegger. His works include several symphonies and a viola concerto. His Fourth Symphony was completed in 1928, and is in six movements.