The Changing Sounds of the World's Great Orchestras
The last of four programmes in which Jonathan Swain explores the differences and developments in instrumental tone and playing styles throughout the century, contrasting orchestras from various countries and periods. Orchestras in this country have been praised for doing justice to the music in a self-denying team spirit. This programme looks at the teamwork and the trendsetters in British orchestral playing, with Elgar, Hoist and Vaughan Williams conducting their own music, Adrian Boult conducting Wagner, Andre Previn conducting Rachmaninov, and, from
11.30, Thomas Beecham and John Barbirolli conducting Delius. Producer Susan Kenyon