Frederick Grinke (violin)
The St. Cecilia Orchestra
(Leader, Thomas Carter )
Conductor, Trevor Harvey
Kenneth Leighton , who was born in 1929, studied at the Royal Academy of Music and at Queen's College, Oxford. He has won Royal Philharmonic Prizes with his, Piano Concerto and his Scherzo for Orchestra, and in 1951 was awarded the Mendelssohn Scholarship, wh.ch enabled him to &tudy in Rome with Petrassi. His Violin Concerto (writtenin the spring of last year) is in four movements, with the slow movement placed last.
Franz Reizenstein 's Serenade was orgirrally written for ten instruments; in this form it was first heard at the Cheltenham Festival of 1951. Tonight it is being performed for the first time in a new orchestral version. D.C.