Violin Concerto played by Henry Holst and the BBC Northern Orchestra, conducted by Warwick Braithwaite

Today is Danish Constitution Day and the music of Denmark is represented this evening by the Violin Concerto of one of that country's leading composers, Carl Nielsen. Born in 1865, Nielsen studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Music at Copenhagen and later became its principal. He died in 1931 at the age of sixty-six.
Henry Holst, who is the soloist in Nielsen's Violin Concerto, was born in Jutland and also studied at the Royal Conservatoire at Copenhagen from 1913-1917. In 1923 he was appointed leader of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He has lived in Manchester since 1930. and is now leader of the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra as well as his own Quartet.