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A song-a-minute selection of popular melodies old and new sung by Edmund Hockridge
Carole Carr , Louise .Traill Alan Dean , Marie Benson and the Song Pedlars with instrumental accompaniment
Producer, Johnnie Stewart

Contributors

Sung By:
Edmund Hockridge
Sung By:
Carole Carr
Unknown:
Louise .Traill
Unknown:
Alan Dean
Unknown:
Marie Benson
Unknown:
Johnnie Stewart

Anthony Pini (cello)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, David Wise)
Conducted by Basil Cameron
From the Royal Albert Hall, London (Tickets may be obtained from the Royal Albert Hall or usual agents)
Is it, one wonders, the 'proud full sail' of the great tune in the finale that has gained for Sibelius's Second Symphony an especial popularity? But there are other attractive features. In the opening movement the listener may take delight, not only in, its pastoral-like character, but in the way the several strands of the music are transformed and take their place in the general design. The slow movement, after a phantom-like beginning, has a tender episode in F sharp. There is also a ravishing oboe melody in the middle section of the fast-moving Scherzo; this is heard again before the music grows in intensity and the way is prepared for the resplendent pageantry of the finale, which succeeds without a break. (Harold Rutland)

Contributors

Cello:
Anthony Pini
Leader:
David Wise
Conducted By:
Basil Cameron
Unknown:
Albert Hall
Unknown:
Harold Rutland

Eric Greene (tenor)
Aeolian String Quartet:
Alfred Cave (violin)
Leonard Dight (violin)
Watson Forbes (viola)
John Moore (cello)
Frederick Stone (piano)
Julian Bream (guitar)

Contributors

Tenor:
Eric Greene
Violin:
Alfred Cave
Violin:
Leonard Dight
Viola:
Watson Forbes
Cello:
John Moore
Piano:
Frederick Stone
Guitar:
Julian Bream

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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