THE BBC ORCHESTRA
(Section D)
Leader, PAUL BEARD
Conducted by HEINZ UNGER
(Soprano solo, ELSIE SUDDABY )
From 1925 to 1933 Heinz Unger was conductor of the Gesellschaft für Musikfreunde in Berlin. He also had a choir of his own in Berlin. Since 1933 he has lived in England, but pays yearly visits to the U.S.S.R. where he is permanent conductor of the Leningrad Wireless Orchestra and guest conductor of the Leningrad Philharmonic. Dr. Unger made his first appearance in England in 1934 at a London Philharmonic Orchestra Concert in Queen's Hall when he conducted' a Beethoven-Mahler-Strauss programme.