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' You're not playing very well -it shows', was Sir Henry Wood 's favourite rebuke to his orchestral Slayers, who rewarded him with standards often far above those to be found in Britain at the time. Today's programme includes records made by Wood in the 1930s.
Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla
QUEEN'S HALL ORCHESTRA
Liszt Piano Concerto No 1, in E flat: WALTER GIESEKING , LONDON
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Vaughan Williams A London Symphony
QUEEN'S HALL ORCHESTRA
Bach, orch Klenovsky Toccata and Fugue in D minor (awv 565)
QUEEN'S HALL ORCHESTRA
(Sir Henry Wood conducting Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music: Wednesday 11.15 pm)

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Henry Wood
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Walter Gieseking
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Klenovsky Toccata
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Sir Henry Wood
Source: Radio Times

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