From a West-Country concert hall
Thelma Reiss (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Ian Whyte
Solo cello, Thelma Reiss Ballet music: The Perfect Fool Holst
By technique and personality -and a certain intensive beauty in her playing, Thelma Reiss has won her way into the front rank of our younger cellists. Our own critics have acclaimed her ; France, Holland, Norway, and Spain have all recognised her outstanding gifts. She was something of a child prodigy, for at the age of seven she was able to play the Goltermann Concerto in A minor, and in her early teens won an open scholarship to the R.C.M.