Jean Pougnet (violin)
BBC Orchestra (Leader, Paul Beard), conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
ORCHESTRA
JEAN POUGNET AND ORCHESTRA
From a concert hall in East Anglia

This afternoon's conductor.
After studying at the Brighton School of Music and the Royal College in London, Hyam Greenbaum was principal second violin in the Queen's Hall Orchestra from 1916 to 1925. For sometime, too,he was pianist and principal second violin for the Diaghilev ballet, recording manager of a gramophone company, for three years musical director to C.B. Cochran, and supervised the music for several films. He was also one of the original members of the Brosa String Quartet and before the war he was Television Music Director of the BBC.
'When preparing Gluck's Orpheus for production', Liszt says, 'I could not restrain my imagination from straying away from the simple version that the great master had made of the subject, but turned to that Orpheus whose name hovers majestically and full of harmony about the Greek myths. It recalled that Etruscan vase in the Louvre which represents the poet-musician crowned with the mystic kingly wreath; draped in a star-studded mantle, his slender fingers are plucking the lyre strings, while his lips are liberating

Busoni's Concerto
Busoni's Violin Concerto was written in 1896-7, when the composer was thirty years of age. Like the Comedy Overture, it represents Busoni's earlier style of writing, which paid respects to the style of the classical masters such as Mozart and Liszt's concertos, consisting of three move - all based on the same thematic material. Furthermore, in Busoni's Concerto the solo