Conducted by Horace Fellowes
Relayed from The Pavilion Gardens, Buxton
(North Regional Programme)

Hamish MacCunn was among the first Scotsmen to give to the world of concert and opera music which was strongly racial; his work does, indeed, express in terms of modern music much of what Scotland means to her children, with a depth and virility and tenderness which stamp it as wholly sincere. Born in Greenock, in 1868, lie was one of the original. students of the Royal College of Music, gaining a scholarship for composition on its opening. While still a student, he had an overture performed at the Crystal Palace concerts, which at once made it clear that he was a young composer with a new and strongly individual message. The Land of the Mountain and the Flood appeared when he was only twenty-one, and did even more to spread his fame.