BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Dvorak's Symphony No. 4: next Sunday Dvorak's Symphony in D minor, known as No. 2, was actually his seventh in order of composition, and the third of the five which are generally played. After his successful visit to this country in 1884, when he was forty-rhree, the was elected an honorary member of the Philharmonic Society, and wrote this Symphony at the Society's request. It was heard for the first time at one of the Society's concerts 'n St. James's Hall in 1885 with Dvorak conducting. Deryck Cooke