Pobl gyffredin yn son am orchwylion anghyffredin (' My Day's Work '-4- Ordinary people speak of extraordinary occupations)

REGINALD PAUL (pianoforte)
THE BBC
WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader, FRANK THOMAS
Conductor, IDRIS LEWIS Beethoven is thought to have begun his first symphony when he was about twenty-five, but he was thirty before it was first performed in 1800. The music seems simple and straightforward enough to us now, but in those days it was considered by the critics to be daringly modern. The introduction upset them, for Beethoven had been a little unconventional in the matter of keys, running through three of them in the first three bars. But it is all very jolly music, reminding us first of Mozart, then of Haydn.