Relayed from
The Town Hall, Birmingham
THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM
ORCHESTRA
(Leader, ALFRED CAVE)
Conducted by LESLIE HEWARD
GASPAR CASSADO (violoncello)

during which EMILY ENGLISH will read passages from Jane Austen

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HERE BRIEFLY is the history of Schubert's last and firrest symphony. Written a few months before he died in 1828; rehearsed in his lifetime but laid aside as too difficult; taken off the shelf by Schumann ten years later ; first performed under Mendelssohn at a Gewandhaus concert in Leipzig, 1839; brought to London and laughed out of the rehearsal room in 1844, it was first heard in England at the Crystal Palace in 1856. It is Schubert's longest and gayest symphony, an ordered riot of high spirits. It rushes along with the speed and abandon of a stream in flood, and breaking its banks in the finale, throws itself into the sea at last with frenzied exhilaration.

Presented by ROBERT TREDINNICK
Variety