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O for the Wings of a Dove
Sixty years ago, in April 1927, a 15-year-old boy soprano made what was to become one of the most famous recordings in gramophone history. It was of Mendelssohn's 'O for the wings of a dove' and the singer was Ernest Lough.
Jeremy Nicholas discovers the history of that recording and talks to Ernest Lough about the way it changed his life. Producer SALLY THOMPSON
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Ernest Lough.
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Ernest Lough
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Sally Thompson
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