Myra Verney (soprano)
George Pizzey (baritone)
Albert Ferber (piano)
Olive Zorian (violin)
Norina Semino (cello) Peter Stadlen (piano) Brain Wind Quintet:
Gareth Morris (flute) Leonard Brain (oboe)
Stephen Waters (clarinet)
Dennis Brain (horn)
Thomas Wightman (bassoon)
(Albert Ferber ) Although of Swiss descent. Roberto Gerhard is to be regarded as belonging to the modern Spanish school. Born in 1896 at Valls, Tarragona. he studied the piano with Granados and composition with Pedrell, who had so great an influence on the development of Spanish music in our time. Later, from 1923-8 he studied with Sfhonberg in Vienna. In 1939 he came to this country and settled at Cambridge. His works include several ballets. music for radio plays (including The Adventures of Don Quixote), a symphony, ' Hommage a Pedrell,' and a good deal of chamber music
(George Pizzey )
(Myra Verney. Stephen Waters. Olive Zorian , Norina Semino. and Peter Stadlen )
Egon Wellesz. one of the most renowned musical scholars of today, who speaks with special authority on Byzantine music, is also a very considerable composer. He has written six operas and a large number of orchestral and chamber works. He was born in Vienna in 1885 and studied with Schonberg. Since 1938 he has been living in Oxford, where, six years before, he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Music