Mavis BENNETT (Soprano); WALTER GLYNNE
(Tenor); CECIL Dixon (Pianoforte)
The WIRELESS ORCHESTRA, conducted by JOHN ANSELL
THE name of Francesco Ezechielo Ermen gildo Cavaliere Suppe Demelli gives un certain clues to this composer's nationality. He was of Belgian descent, but his family had lived for many years in Italy. Ultimately he settled in Vienna and was thenceforth known as Franz von Suppé.
Operettas and farce with music were his speciality. Ho turned out in all about a couple of hundred such pieces. Nowadays, we in this country know very few of his works, but these Overtures are among the most familiar items in wireless programmes. That to Poet and Peasant has been arranged for nearly sixty different combinations of instruments.