A programme of airs and part-songs devised and conducted by Johannes Lieske
The BBC Singers (A)
Stanley Riley (baritone)
Johannes Lieske was born at Insterburg in East Prussia in 1907. After studying at Konigsberg and Bonn, he was appointed conductor of the University Choir and Orchestra at Bonn, and in 1932 he gave concerts in London, Oxford, and Winchester, and in the same year conducted a programme of songs broadcast by the Bonn Student Singers.