from Queen's Hall, London W.I
(SoleLessees, Messrs. Chappelland Co., Ltd.)
Ina Souez (soprano)
Dennis Noble (baritone) Sidonie Goossens (harp)
Irene Scharrer (pianoforte)
The BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Ninety players)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by SIR HENRY J. WOOD
Part 1
God Save the King John Ireland was born at Bowdon
(not ' Bowden ', as ' Grove ' spells it), Cheshire, in 1879. From 1893 to 1901 he studied at the Royal College of Music, four years of this period being spent under Stanford. His earliest mature work, the Phantasy Trio in A minor, dates from 1908.
' A London Overture ', first played in its present form at a Promenade Concert last September, is based on some of the material of an Overture for Brass Band written in 1934 as the test piece for the National Brass Band Contest at the Crystal Palace. But the two overtures have little in common except this basic material.
Ireland wishes this Overture to be regarded as No. 4 of his ' London Pieces ', the first three of which- the piano pieces ' Chelsea Reach', 'Ragamuffin', and Soho Forenoons' -were written in 1917-18. Solo pianoforte, IRENE SCHARRER