Sophie Wyss (soprano)
Lennox Berkeley (piano)
Watson Forbes (viola)
Alan Richardson (piano)
Albert Ferber (piano)
London String Trio
String Trio
Six Preludes, for piano
(first broadcast performance)
Songs :
D un vanneur de ble aux vents Ode du premier jour de mai The low lands uf Holland
Viola Sonata
(first broadcast performance)
The first programme of this new series is devoted to music by Lennox Berkeley, a composer who is recognised as possessing gifts of no common order His work has style and imagination and a fine, clear texture that recalls certain eighteenth-century masters He was born in 1903 and studied in Paris under Nadia Boulanger
Further encouragement of British composers has recently bten given by Dr Thomas Wood. Chairman of the Royal Philharmonic Society, and Mrs Wood. who have founded in the name ot the Society six prizes for composit on to be competed for annually by past and present students of the chief Schools of Music in England and So tland There are two prizes of £ 50 each and four of £ 30. and competitors must be under twenty-six. This is inueed a generous gesture which should do much to stimulate comfnisers and enrich our musical iterature HAROLD RUTLAND