Conducted by The Composer
The Augmented Station Orchestra
Suite Venetienne (Venetian Suite)
Ask any practising musician who 'Willie Reed' is, and he will answer: 'The leader of the London Symphony Orchestra; a first-class violinist; the man who gets up at a moment's notice to conduct anything in the world when a 'star' conductor is ill or has lost his train; the composer of Aesop's Fables, The Lincoln Imp, a Violin Concerto, and other works full of bright ideas and sound musicianship; the director of high musical enterprises round about Croydon'-and so on. He was born in Somersetshire and educated in Cardiff. He can therefore be claimed by both sides of the channel covered by the Cardiff Station.
His Venetian Suite contains four pieces: (1) Approaching Venice; (2) Serenade; (3) Gondola Song; (4) Carnival.
William Primrose (Violin) and Orchestra
Concert in A Minor
Millicent Russell (Contralto)
Mirago; Should one of us remember Words by J. Christina Rossetti
Orchestra
Italian Serenade
Caprice, 'Will o' the Wisp'
A Reading from the poems of Chatterton
William Primrose
Rosenlied (Song of Roses) Toccata
Millicent Russell
Mary Beaton's Song (from 'Darnley', a Historie by Lord Shaw)
Orchestra
Suite, 'Aesop's Fables'