(Section A)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Malcolm Sargent
Glazunov's Symphony No. 6, in C minor, which was written in 1896, is probably the most popular in Britain of the composer's eight symphonies. Edwin Evans has summed it up as follows: ' It differs from the others in that its two middle sections, charming as they are, seem too slight, too fragile, to be enclosed in so massive a frame as that formed by the two outside movements.
' The place of the Andante is taken by the short set of'not very elaborate variations, that of the Scherzo by an Intermezzo which is almost ingenuous. The opening Allegro is a fine edifice of symphonic architecture, and the Finale is a highly ingenious feat of rhythmical development.'