(Section E)
Led by Laurance Turner
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
Aubrey Brain (horn)
Richard Strauss 's father, Franz Strauss , was the first horn player in the Munich Opera Orchestra, so that it was natural the son should know a deal about the instrument. The Horn Concerto is an early work written in his student days, when he was about seventeen. He composed a symphony at about the same time, which, though it was never published, has been several times performed, notably in England, in 1896. Neither work quite reveals or quite conceals the later Strauss of 'Till Eulenspiegel' and ' Ein Heldenleben