(S.B. from Manchester)
GWLADYS NAISH (Soprano)
DENNIS NOBLE (Baritone)
THE WINGATES TEMPERANCE BAND
(Conducted by H. Moss )
SIR JULIUS BENEDICT , though counted as among our English composers, was really a German who made his home with us. He occupied a leading place in the Victorian world of music ; for about forty years he was looked up to as one of its leaders. Remembered now almost wholly by his opera, The Lily of Killarncy, he won several successes, not only in that direction, but in sacred oratorios and cantatas. He left besides some purely orchestral music which is still occasionally played.
These brilliant concert variations on the well-known ' Carnival of Venice ' air were long among his most popular drawing-room pieces, in an age when vocal accomplishment was more usual than it is now. (Soloist, E. CLAYTON> )Selection of Meyerbeer's Works (Soloist, B. BYERS> )