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Composer of the Week: Holst

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

4/5. Donald Macleod looks at some of the music Holst wrote for particular occasions or special commissions, including a test piece for the National Brass Band Championships in 1928, a work for the BBC's Wireless Military Band, and one of his few pieces of chamber music. Ballet music: The Perfect Fool
Philharmonia, conductor Barry Wordsworth Terzetto for flute, oboe and cello Huntingdon Trio A Moorside Suite
Grimethorpe Colliery Band, conductor Elgar Howarth Hammersmith, Op 52
LSO, conductor Richard Hickox
(Repeated on Wednesday at 12 midnight)

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Conductor:
Barry Wordsworth
Conductor:
Elgar Howarth
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Source: Radio Times

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