sung by Laelia Finneberg (soprano)
Laelia Finneberg is of Irish extraction and studied at the Royal Irish
Academy in Dublin, and afterwards in London. Her first concert engagements were in Central Europe, where she appeared as guest singer with the Vienna, the Warsaw, and Czech Philharmonic Orchestras. Since then she has won high praise from the critics in London and on the Continent. She made her first appearance in the British Isles with the Scottish Orchestra at Glasgow in 1931 and her first London appearance at the Albert Hall in 1932. Besides this broadcast, she is to sing with the BBC Orchestra in the Home Service tonight at 8.30.