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Joseph Haydn, Symphonies Geraint Jones (1917-1998) A prize-winning student at the , Jones was a son of the Church. The Baroque, especially Bach, Handel, Mozart and Gluck, drew his creative fire to which he coupled a dedication to authenticity of style. These were his obsessions as conductor and keyboardist. It was in this latter capacity that he figured strongly Recordings from in Dame Myra Hess's National Gallery wartime concerts. His second wife was violinist Winifred Roberts and with her he gave numerous concerts. Roberts was the leader of the Geraint Jones The Itter Broadcast Collection, 1952-1960 Orchestra. Jones took Stephen Bishop under his wing and together they gave all of Mozart's concertos across several seasons at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. A committed yeoman of BBC broadcasts of concert and studio performances given festivals he, in the 1970s and 1980s, steered a number including Lake District, Salisbury and Manchester. Musical training and his loyalty to musical values were further imparted to by 11 orchestras and 19 conductors generations of student at the RAM where he was a Professor (1961-88). He died in London.

All the recordings presented here were made ‘off-air’ using a state-of-the-art tape Harry Newstone (1921-2006) Newstone was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His name machine. Subsequently they were archived on disc acetates – the tapes themselves being is little known now. To all intents and purposes he set out as a virtuoso harmonica player but erased and reused. The performance of Symphony 103, conducted by Harry Newstone, after four years of studying with and Robert Simpson (with whom he was to is the only one for which the original tape survives. work on new editions of the Beethoven symphonies and on Havergal Brian) his compass shifted towards . Studies at the Guildhall School and Royal Academy of Music led The discs were stored upright in a single location, they had probably never been moved to a scholarship to the Accademia Santa Cecilia. Newstone founded the Haydn Orchestra in or played, and so have survived more than 60 years in remarkably good condition. 1949 and contributed a Haydn ‘strand’ as part of 1951’s Festival of Britain. premiere commer- cial recordings were of Haydn’s Nos 49 and 73. He took part in a project with BBC Wales to The original documentation, by both cataloguing and typed centre labels on each disc make a complete recording of the Haydn symphonies. Newstone’s Eulenberg Edition of the gives full details of the performers and transmission dates. Richard Itter was generous in Haydn Symphonies continues to attract praise. More than 100 Haydn concerts by Newstone are documented by the BBC. He died in Victoria, British Columbia. not trying to fit too much music on each side – but rather less kind when it came to the abrupt fades on last notes and applause. Rob Barnett, April 2020 Here is a rich smorgasbord of Haydn from a wide range of conductors : some reached back into the 19th century, some were the travelling maestros of their time, and some formed British Orchestras that enriched the diet of our nations musical life.

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Paul Sacher (1906-1999) The long-lived Sacher was a wealthy patron of the musical world, a prolific commissioner of scores and, of course, a conductor. His patronage was fuelled DISC 1 60.28 by having in 1934 married the widow of a major shareholder in Hoffmann-La Roche pharmaceu- Symphony No. 80 in D minor, Hob 1:80 ticals. Later he was to become a leading member of the board. Those who were fortunate to 1 I Allegro spiritoso 3.48 receive commissions from him included Stravinsky, Bartók, Martin, Honegger, Martin, Hin- 2 II Adagio 7.24 demith, Henze, Strauss and Carter. Basle’s Paul Sacher Foundation continues his life’s work 3 III Menuetto & Trio: Allegretto 3.22 and is the home for manuscript collections of the works and lives of Stravinsky, Lutosławski, 4 IV Finale: Presto 3.44 Ligeti and Boulez among others. Sacher’s concerts were pretty thoroughly broadcast by the BBC Symphony Orchestra BBC. Haydn symphonies enlivened his concert programmes in 1949 (53), 1953 (53)¸1954 (7), Fritz Stiedry (1883-1968) 8 October 1955 1968 (44) and 1980 (22).

Jean Martinon (1910-1976) Martinon was known as a French conductor and more Symphony No. 83 in G minor 'La poule', Hob 1:83 distantly as a composer. Born in Lyon he studied with Roussel, d'Indy, Munch and Désormière. 5 I Allegro spiritoso 6.04 His long list of compositions includes symphonies (4), concertos (7), choral works and chamber 6 II Andante 7.48 music. His orchestras included those at Chicago, Düsseldorf and the Hague as well as the 7 III Menuet & Trio: Allegretto 3.43 French National, the Israel Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic and the Concerts Lam- 8 IV Finale: Vivace 3.10 oureux. He had engagements with BBC Third Programme but they were not numerous. His BBC Symphony Orchestra one Haydn symphony made a strange companion in a Royal Festival Hall concert alongside Nicolai Malko (1883-1961) 31 January 1960 Ravel L’enfant et les Sortilèges and André Navarra playing the Lalo Cello Concerto. This is the only Haydn symphony concert BBC online archive. Symphony No. 102 in B flat major, Hob 1:102 9 I Largo-Allegro vivace 7.30 Harry Blech (1910-1999) Blech, London-born, was a pupil of Arthur Catterall in 10 II Adagio 4.09 Manchester. Later he studied in Czechoslovakia with Otakar Ševík. He joined the Hallé in 1929. 11 III Menuetto & Trio: Allegro 5.19 During the 1930s he was a member of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and in wartime turned his hand to form the London Wind Players from members of the RAF orchestra. In 1948 he 12 IV Finale: Presto 4.32 founded the London Mozart Players and conducted them until 1984. There was to be a BBC Symphony Orchestra diminutive clutch of Decca and EMI studio recordings by Blech and the LMP. Many of these Basil Cameron (1884-1975) 25 May 1956 have been reissued by First Hand Records. His last conducting engagement was at the Fairfield Maida Vale Studio Halls in Croydon in 1992. His BBC concert broadcasts, all dating from 1956, of Haydn symphonies comprised Nos. 43, 52, 85 and 103.

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of contemporary works by Blacher, Egk, von Einem and Hartmann (Symphony No. 6). Haydn’s DISC 2 69.19 London Symphonies were recorded commercially by Jochum. Symphony No. 101 in D major 'The Clock', Hob 1:101 1 I Adagio-Presto 7.56 Walter Goehr (1903-1960) Goehr was born in and his son Alexander, also a 2 II Andante 6.21 composer, was born there. He studied with Schoenberg. Well known in British film studios, his 3 III Menuet & Trio: Allegretto 7.09 film music included Great Expectations (1946). Walter Goehr made recordings of Bach and 4 IV Finale: Vivace 4.33 later of various ‘warhorse’ concertos with Noel Mewton-Wood in. His name was in some measure kept alive by his conducting of the Philharmonia in the Tippett Concerto for Double Otto Klemperer (1885-1973) 26 August 1958 String Orchestra. Goehr was Tippett’s colleague at Morley College. That was in 1952 and it was later recorded and came out on a Music for Pleasure LP. His 1940s BBC radio music Usher Hall, included The Harbour called Mulberry, Radar and a Britten project, The Dark Tower. There was International Festival a Walter Goehr Orchestra and Goehr immersed himself in lively repertoire including, in 1951, pioneering BBC broadcasts of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 with Morley College forces. There Symphony No. 29 in E major, Hob 1:29 were to be some 400 radio broadcast concerts on the BBC. His son’s Little Symphony was 5 I Allegro ma non troppo 4.14 written “In memoriam Walter Goehr”. 6 II Andante 6.49 7 III Menuet & Trio: Allegretto 4.35 Boyd Neel (1905-1981) Boyd Neel was a general medical practitioner who kept his 8 IV Finale: Presto 3.53 career going fully in tandem with that of a successful conductor and musical entrepreneur; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra eventually, he emigrated to . Among other things his orchestra played British repertoire for strings and Lyrita have issued a 1961 example on REAM1117. His eponymous orchestra Hermann Scherchen (1891-1966) 22 September 1952 was recruited in 1932 from the RCM and RAM and debuted in June 1933. In 1936 the orchestra and conductor made the first recording of Vaughan Williams’ Tallis Fantasia. There Symphony No. 91 in E flat major, Hob 1:91 was an invitation to the 1937 and for this event Britten composed for them 9 I Largo-Allegro assai 8.57 his Bridge Variations. From 1947 onwards there were world tours. 1952 saw Neel appointed 10 II Andante 5.38 as Dean of the Royal Conservatory of Music at , where he remained for 18 11 III Menuet & Trio: Un poco Allegretto 4.25 years. He founded the Hart House Orchestra in Toronto. There were other English music 12 IV Finale: Vivace 4.51 recordings including Finzi’s Dies Natalis with Joan Cross. The BBC’s records reveal many radio broadcasts but few in which he directed Haydn symphonies; there were a handful in the 1950s. Anthony Bernard (1891-1998) 19 November 1956

4 17 HAYDN SYMPHONIES CC 9119 HAYDN SYMPHONIES that exist are on Philips: Schumann symphony No 4 in the original version and some of Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance marches. His BBC broadcasts, dating from the 1970s, included a DISC 3 78.41 selection of symphonies as part of Robert Simpson’s Havergal Brian ‘push’ within the Corpora- Symphony No. 6 in D major 'Le matin', Hob 1:6 tion. These same concerts also had him wielding the baton over works by Wagner, Beethoven, 1 I Adagio-Allegro 4.29 Mozart and Bach. Hardly any other radio concerts followed. Pope died in of bone cancer. Simpson praised him for “exceptional gifts never recognised except by musicians” and 2 II Adagio-Andante-Adagio 7.32 spoke highly of his Beethoven Pastoral and a “glorious” Bruckner Fifth. 3 III Menuet & Trio 4.56 4 IV Finale: Allegro 3.16 Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900-1973) Conductor and composer, he was born in Boyd Neel Orchestra Berlin and studied music in Heidelberg and Münster. He was also a composition student with Anthony Collins (1893-1963) 12 January 1955 Schreker at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik. Spells of employment occurred at opera houses in Wuppertal (1923), Rostock (1928-1931), Darmstadt (1931-1933) and (1935-1943). Symphony No. 25 in C major, Hob 1:25 In 1944 he became music director at the Berlin State Opera. He was unsullied by Nazi 5 I Adagio-Allegro molto 7.19 associations and founded and for years led the NDR Radio Symphony Orchestra. There he 6 II Menuet & Trio 3.53 included in his programmes Bartók, Stravinsky, Hindemith, Sibelius and Mahler although 7 III Presto 3.25 Mozart and the mainline classics also figured prominently. The BBC were regularly given access to and used Hamburg Radio tapes of his concerts especially in the 1940s and 1950s. Jacques Orchestra None of this precluded lead conducting positions in Éire and Stockholm. He caught Decca’s Reginald Jacques (1894-1969) 2 August 1953 eye and recorded the Beethoven symphonies and Piano Concertos with the Wiener Philhar- moniker. The British record producer Erik Smith was his son. BBC records show that he was Symphony No. 90 in C major, Hob 1:90 a champion of Tippett and conducted at least one work by Matyas Seiber. 8 I Adagio-Allegro assai 7.17 9 II Andante 9.51 (1902-1987) An eminent German conductor and composer, born 10 III Menuet & Trio 5.26 near . Higher studies at Conservatory saw him changing direction from 11 IV Finale: Allegro assai 5.05 composing to conducting. There his teacher was , another promi- London Philharmonic Orchestra nent Brucknerian who also happened to be a composer. He held conducting posts in (1895-1962) 19 April 1954 Mönchen-Gladbach, , Munich, , , Berlin and Hamburg and early on showed a love for Bruckner. In the early 1960s he was joint chief conductor of the Concertge- Royal Festival Hall bouw alongside Haitink. Conducting engagements came in London, Bamberg, Dresden, Salzburg and Bayreuth. Although he was not prolific on the BBC his LPO concerts of Haydn works put in radio appearances in the 1970s and his German radio tapes also found a place. Although the rising mainstream classics sustained his musical career, he also gave premieres 16 5 HAYDN SYMPHONIES CC 9119 HAYDN SYMPHONIES

higher-level training took place at Queen's College, Oxford. Like Patrick Hadley he was severely Symphony No. 28 in A major, Hob 1:28 wounded during World War I. He founded the Jacques Orchestra in 1936 and conducted them, 12 I Allegro di molto 4.21 sometimes with the Bach Choir, until 1960. He has a small discography with his Jacques 13 II Poco Adagio 6.26 Orchestra, courtesy of Decca. Among his recordings, quite apart from his Bach and Handel, 14 III Menuet & Trio: Allegro molto 2.31 are to be found Bliss’s Pastoral - Lie Strewn the White Flocks with Nancy Evans and Holst’s St 15 IV Presto assai 2.56 Paul’s Suite, Howells’ Elegy, Foulds’ Celtic Lament and Vaughan Williams’ Greensleeves London Symphony Orchestra Fantasia. He was the dedicatee, and in some cases first performer, of works by Malcolm Arnold including (with a premiere at the 1949 Edinburgh Festival) Arnold’s First Clarinet Concerto with Stanley Pope (1901-1995) 9 December 1956 Frederick Thurston. There were also works by Cooke and Tippett: his Little Music for Strings.

Hans Rosbaud (1895-1962) An Austrian conductor, Rosbaud, rather like Boulez, became inextricably bound up in the music of the 20th century. His studies were conducted at the in am Main. He held conducting posts in and Frankfurt where he secured a reputation with Schoenberg and Bartók premieres. Shortly after the war he became music director of the then moving into the congenial posting of South West German Radio Orchestra in Baden-Baden. He remained there until his death nurturing his tastes for modern music. Parallel festivals of contemporary music including Donaueschingen were his bread and butter. His sympathies were in fact wide-ranging. Prominent in his legacy are recordings of the music of Bruckner, Mahler, Stravinsky and Boulez. He was closely associated with Karl Amadeus Hartmann, conducting premieres of the opera Simplicius Simplicissimus and the Second and Fourth Symphonies. Radio 3 audiences heard him in tapes of Dallapiccola, Barraud, Liebermann, Blacher, Penderecki, Stravinsky and Nono. There was also a series of Bruckner symphonies with the Munich Philharmonic in 1949. He favoured various non-musical activities including reading world literature in the original and engaging with scientific literature.

Stanley Pope (1901-1995) Pope, a Londoner, was rarely in the best of health. He studied in London and in and Switzerland. His teachers at Lausanne numbered Frank Martin (composition) and Paul Klecki (conducting). After the Second World War he conducted in Britain and on the Continent. Pope’s specialities were Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms and Strauss. His few commercial recordings are from the vinyl era and are sparse in number. Those

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Anthony Bernard (1891-1998) Bernard was to become known for his conducting talents but was also a composer. London-born, he studied piano with Holbrooke and Leonard DISC 4 68.38 Borwick and composition with Bantock and Ireland at the Birmingham and Midland Institute. He Symphony No. 64 in A major ‘Tempora mutantur’, Hob 1:64 founded the London Chamber Orchestra (LCO) concentrating on the repertoire ignored by the 1 I Allegro con spirito 6.29 larger orchestras: Delius and de Falla were prominent. In 1928 he became Director of the New 2 II Largo 7.55 English Music Society and in 1931-32 gave Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs and Benedicite, 3 III Menuet & Trio: Allegretto 2.49 Lambert’s Rio Grande and Moeran’s Whythorne’s Shadow and Lonely Waters. He was a strong 4 IV Finale: Presto 3.23 and life-long protagonist for the music of Lennox Berkeley and his was the pioneering recording BBC Symphony Orchestra of the Divertimento. Berkeley’s Sinfonietta was conducted by him with the LCO from a 1961 BBC Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900-1973) 20 November 1952 broadcast on Lyrita REAM1117. He also supported performances of works by Maurice Ohana. An early and informed advocate for Haydn, Bernard assisted with three Third Programme Maida Vale Studio documentaries “Haydn the Symphonist”: talks given by Robert Simpson with illustrations by Bernard and his orchestra. He wrote incidental music for radio productions of “The Bacchae of Symphony No. 92 in G major 'Oxford', Hob 1:92 Euripides” with the LCO and then in the 1970s with the Philomusica in a format adapted and 5 I Adagio-Allegro spiritoso 6.44 produced by Raymond Raikes. 6 II Adagio 7.48 7 III Menuet & Trio: Allegretto 4.24 Anthony Collins (1893-1963) Born in Hastings, Collins died in Los Angeles on 11 8 IV Presto 6.03 December 1963. After serving in World War I, he studied at the RCM with Boult and Holst until BBC Symphony Orchestra 1925. Having started out as a violist in Hastings he became lead with the LSO and the Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt 25 February 1956 Covent Garden Orchestra. He conducted for the Carl Rosa, Sadler's Wells and the Hastings Festival. His first conducting engagement in London with the LSO was a great success with an Maida Vale Studio outstanding performance of the Elgar First Symphony. His Elgar and Sibelius recordings have been reissued on Beulah. He established the London Mozart Orchestra in 1939; the same year Symphony No. 94 in G major 'The Surprise', Hob 1:94 he went to the USA, conducting in New York and Los Angeles and writing film scores for RKO 9 I Adagio-Vivace assai 7.20 Studios. After the war there was to be a return to the UK. He wrote symphonies (2), choral 10 II Andante 7.00 works and many lighter pieces including film music. He was not a BBC stalwart and as a 11 III Menuet & Trio: Allegro molto 4.51 conductor was a rara avis on the BBC Third Programme. 12 IV Finale: Allegro di molto 3.54 BBC Symphony Orchestra Reginald Jacques (1894-1969) A sterling, if low key, reputation has been boosted Eugen Jochum (1902-1987) 7 March 1956 into longevity by his far from numerous recordings with . An English choral and orchestral conductor, he was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. His degree and 14 7 HAYDN SYMPHONIES CC 9119 HAYDN SYMPHONIES

despite the BBC’s vote of confidence in some 320 broadcast concerts; many of these as a DISC 5 56.58 complement to Wood and then Sargent in the Proms. From the early 1930s there Symphony No. 96 in D major 'The Miracle', Hob 1:96 are radio instances of his conducting Haydn’s symphonies 31 and 102, the latter in the same 1 I Adagio-Allegro 6.33 1961 concert in which he premiered Bax’s Northern Ballad No. 1 - strange companions. As a 2 II Andante 6.58 continuation of his seaside orchestra days he also conducted the Hastings and St Leonard’s 3 III Menuetto & Trio: Allegretto 6.11 orchestra. 4 IV Finale: Vivace (assai) 3.28 BBC Symphony Orchestra Otto Klemperer (1885-1973) Almost fifty years after his death Klemperer’s name and Walter Goehr (1903-1960) 1 October 1953 standing continues to command awed respect. Born in Breslau (now Wroclaw in Poland) Klemperer studied with Pfitzner. He emigrated to the USA in the 1930s as Hitler came to power. Maida Vale Studio While in Los Angeles he struck up a friendship with Schoenberg and championed his works. NOTE. The significant groove damage to the acetate heard in the second movement of Symphony Passed over for principal conductorships of major city orchestras he eventually returned to No.96 between 8.44 and 10.00 has been restored to the greatest extent possible. Europe where he migrated from one concert to another until at the age of 70 he gained a reputation as an indomitable conductor of the Philharmonia. During the mid to late LP era he Symphony No. 30 in C 'Alleluja', Hob 1:30 was widely recorded by EMI in core German repertoire and gained and consolidated his eminence. Recordings of the Haydn symphonies 88, 92, 95, 98, 100-102 and 104 did well and 5 I Allegro 4.07 were reissued when the compact disc was in ascendancy. Even so radio broadcasts of live 6 II Andante 4.06 concerts with his Haydn were not numerous. 7 III Finale: Tempo di Menuet, piu tosto Allegretto 4.30 Boyd Neel Orchestra Hermann Scherchen (1891-1966) Scherchen, noted for his far from extravagant Louis Boyd Neel (1905-1981) 24 December 1952 arm and hand motions as a conductor who did not use the baton, was born in Berlin. By the mid 1930s he had left and settled in Switzerland. He recorded extensively with the Symphony No. 53 in D 'L'impériale', Hob 1:53 works of Fricker, Weill, Searle, Dallapiccola, Schoenberg, Prokofiev, Dessau, Reger, Schoen- 8 I Largo maestoso-Vivace 6.43 berg, Mahler, Bartók, Glière, Tchaikovsky, Berlioz, Liszt and Beethoven in his roster. In the 9 II Andante 5.27 1950s he recorded Haydn’s symphonies: 44, 45¸ 49, 55, 80, 88, 92-104 with the Orchester 10 III Menuetto & Trio 4.26 der Wiener Staatsoper and the Wiener Symphoniker. Amongst his pupils were Karl Amadeus 11 IV Finale. Cappriccio: Presto 4.32 Hartmann, Karel Ancerl and Edward Downes. He often conducted the BBCSO from 1929 onwards featuring then contemporary music; he also had a strong association with ISCM. A Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Haydn symphony figured in his first programme with them, the Le Soir symphony. He was Paul Sacher (1906-1999) 18 November 1953 remarkably multifarious in his BBC concerts: appearing on BBCTV, programmes of light music Royal Festival Hall and with the wireless military band.

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Fritz Stiedry (1883-1968) Stiedry was born in Vienna where he studied law and music. 61.58 He was to be found as music director in many of Europe’s concert halls. Opera houses also DISC 6 opened their doors to him in Vienna and in Berlin. His Weber Euryanthe and Freischutz were Symphony No. 100 in G major 'Military', Hob 1:100 relayed to BBC audiences in 1933. After four years with the Leningrad Philharmonic in the 1 I Adagio-Allegro 6.39 1930s he left as politics took a murderous turn and became a New York-based US citizen. His 2 II Allegretto 4.48 Wagner reputation took him to Glyndebourne and Covent Garden in 1947 and 1954. He was 3 III Menuet & Trio: Moderato 4.50 also a longstanding member of the Schoenberg circle. His commercial recordings included 4 IV Finale: Presto 4.18 Haydn symphonies 67, 80 and 102. By repute not the most impassioned of interpreters, he BBC Symphony Orchestra nevertheless enjoyed Third Programme attention in the form of broadcasts of Mahler’s Fifth Jean Martinon (1910-1976) 27 October 1954 Symphony and Tessa Robbins playing the Mendelssohn Concerto. In 1955 he basked in a clutch of BBC programmes including Kell in the Mozart Clarinet Concerto, Mahler’s Sixth and Royal Festival Hall Bruckner’s Fifth. Symphony No. 43 in E flat major ‘Merkur', Hob 1:43 Nicolai Malko (1883-1961) Malko’s life was blown about the points of the compass 5 I Allegro 5.57 by the upheavals of the last century; little surprise then that his cosmopolitan career came to 6 II Adagio 7.28 an end in Sydney. An expatriate Russian who premiered the Miaskovsky’s Fifth Symphony, he 7 III Menuetto & Trio 3.23 also spent years conducting orchestras in St Petersburg, Denmark, the USA and Yorkshire. It 8 IV Finale: Allegro 4.41 was with the tragically short-lived Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra that he gave the UK premiere London Mozart Players of Prokofiev’s Seventh Symphony. Numerous broadcasts, including quite a few with the BBC Harry Blech (1910-1999) 27 November 1956 from the late 1930s onwards, saw him championing his compatriots but also Mendelssohn, Holmboe, Nielsen, Langgaard, Szymanowski, Beethoven, Svendsen and Dvorak. As one of his obituaries recounts, here was “a highly skilled professional who secured ardent performances Symphony No. 52 in C minor, Hob 1:52 by unspectacular means and through a lively and amusing personality.” A selection of his BBC 9 I Allegro assai con brio 4.56 broadcasts can be experienced on Lyrita Recorded Edition REAM 2120. 10 II Andante 7.55 11 III Menuetto & Trio: Allegretto 3.19 Basil Cameron (1884-1975) Cameron adopted the name Basil Hindenburg during 12 IV Finale: Presto 3.50 his years in Berlin. It was as Hindenburg that he conducted the Torquay Municipal Orchestra London Mozart Players before the Great War. Hostilities seem to have resulted in his reverting to Cameron. He Harry Blech 2 February 1956 conducted the world premiere of Bax's Fourth Symphony in San Francisco (1930-32). There was then a longish stay with the (1932-38). A season in the late 1930s in London saw him recording in the Decca studios. His reputation now seems rather grey and this

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DISC 7 72.05 DISC 8 66.50 Symphony No. 85 in B flat major 'La reine', Hob 1:85 Symphony No. 34 in D minor, Hob 1:34 1 I Adagio-Vivace 6.05 1 I Adagio 6.52 2 II Romance: Allegretto 5.39 2 II Allegro 3.49 3 III Menuetto & Trio: Allegretto 3.58 3 III Menuet & Trio: Moderato 3.30 4 IV Finale: Presto 3.32 4 IV Presto assai 2.34 London Mozart Players Haydn Orchestra Harry Blech 25 February 1956 Harry Newstone (1921-2006) 23 November 1954 Royal Festival Hall Symphony No. 93 in D major, Hob 1:93 Symphony No. 103 in E flat major 'Drumroll', Hob 1:103 5 I Adagio-Allegro assai 6.03 5 I Adagio-Allegro con spirito 8.24 6 II Largo cantabile 6.30 6 II Andante piu tosto allegretto 9.25 7 III Menuetto & Trio: Allegro 4.08 7 III Menuet & Trio 4.19 8 IV Finale: Presto ma non troppo 4.53 8 IV Finale: Allegro con spirito 5.24 Haydn Orchestra London Mozart Players Harry Newstone 22 May 1955 Harry Blech 3 September 1956 Symphony No. 103 in E flat major 'Drumroll', Hob 1:103 Symphony No. 98 in B flat major, Hob 1:98 9 I Adagio-Allegro con spirito 9.37 9 I Adagio-Allegro 6.32 10 II Andante piu tosto allegretto 9.15 10 II Adagio 6.03 11 III Menuet & Trio 4.50 11 III Menuet & Trio: Allegro 5.50 12 IV Finale: Allegro con spirito 4.54 12 IV Finale: Presto 6.55 Haydn Orchestra Geraint Jones Orchestra Harry Newstone 8 August 1959 Geraint Jones (1917-1998) 5 March 1956 =

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DISC 7 72.05 DISC 8 66.50 Symphony No. 85 in B flat major 'La reine', Hob 1:85 Symphony No. 34 in D minor, Hob 1:34 1 I Adagio-Vivace 6.05 1 I Adagio 6.52 2 II Romance: Allegretto 5.39 2 II Allegro 3.49 3 III Menuetto & Trio: Allegretto 3.58 3 III Menuet & Trio: Moderato 3.30 4 IV Finale: Presto 3.32 4 IV Presto assai 2.34 London Mozart Players Haydn Orchestra Harry Blech 25 February 1956 Harry Newstone (1921-2006) 23 November 1954 Royal Festival Hall Symphony No. 93 in D major, Hob 1:93 Symphony No. 103 in E flat major 'Drumroll', Hob 1:103 5 I Adagio-Allegro assai 6.03 5 I Adagio-Allegro con spirito 8.24 6 II Largo cantabile 6.30 6 II Andante piu tosto allegretto 9.25 7 III Menuetto & Trio: Allegro 4.08 7 III Menuet & Trio 4.19 8 IV Finale: Presto ma non troppo 4.53 8 IV Finale: Allegro con spirito 5.24 Haydn Orchestra London Mozart Players Harry Newstone 22 May 1955 Harry Blech 3 September 1956 Symphony No. 103 in E flat major 'Drumroll', Hob 1:103 Symphony No. 98 in B flat major, Hob 1:98 9 I Adagio-Allegro con spirito 9.37 9 I Adagio-Allegro 6.32 10 II Andante piu tosto allegretto 9.15 10 II Adagio 6.03 11 III Menuet & Trio 4.50 11 III Menuet & Trio: Allegro 5.50 12 IV Finale: Allegro con spirito 4.54 12 IV Finale: Presto 6.55 Haydn Orchestra Geraint Jones Orchestra Harry Newstone 8 August 1959 Geraint Jones (1917-1998) 5 March 1956 =

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Fritz Stiedry (1883-1968) Stiedry was born in Vienna where he studied law and music. 61.58 He was to be found as music director in many of Europe’s concert halls. Opera houses also DISC 6 opened their doors to him in Vienna and in Berlin. His Weber Euryanthe and Freischutz were Symphony No. 100 in G major 'Military', Hob 1:100 relayed to BBC audiences in 1933. After four years with the Leningrad Philharmonic in the 1 I Adagio-Allegro 6.39 1930s he left as politics took a murderous turn and became a New York-based US citizen. His 2 II Allegretto 4.48 Wagner reputation took him to Glyndebourne and Covent Garden in 1947 and 1954. He was 3 III Menuet & Trio: Moderato 4.50 also a longstanding member of the Schoenberg circle. His commercial recordings included 4 IV Finale: Presto 4.18 Haydn symphonies 67, 80 and 102. By repute not the most impassioned of interpreters, he BBC Symphony Orchestra nevertheless enjoyed Third Programme attention in the form of broadcasts of Mahler’s Fifth Jean Martinon (1910-1976) 27 October 1954 Symphony and Tessa Robbins playing the Mendelssohn Concerto. In 1955 he basked in a clutch of BBC programmes including Kell in the Mozart Clarinet Concerto, Mahler’s Sixth and Royal Festival Hall Bruckner’s Fifth. Symphony No. 43 in E flat major ‘Merkur', Hob 1:43 Nicolai Malko (1883-1961) Malko’s life was blown about the points of the compass 5 I Allegro 5.57 by the upheavals of the last century; little surprise then that his cosmopolitan career came to 6 II Adagio 7.28 an end in Sydney. An expatriate Russian who premiered the Miaskovsky’s Fifth Symphony, he 7 III Menuetto & Trio 3.23 also spent years conducting orchestras in St Petersburg, Denmark, the USA and Yorkshire. It 8 IV Finale: Allegro 4.41 was with the tragically short-lived Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra that he gave the UK premiere London Mozart Players of Prokofiev’s Seventh Symphony. Numerous broadcasts, including quite a few with the BBC Harry Blech (1910-1999) 27 November 1956 from the late 1930s onwards, saw him championing his compatriots but also Mendelssohn, Holmboe, Nielsen, Langgaard, Szymanowski, Beethoven, Svendsen and Dvorak. As one of his obituaries recounts, here was “a highly skilled professional who secured ardent performances Symphony No. 52 in C minor, Hob 1:52 by unspectacular means and through a lively and amusing personality.” A selection of his BBC 9 I Allegro assai con brio 4.56 broadcasts can be experienced on Lyrita Recorded Edition REAM 2120. 10 II Andante 7.55 11 III Menuetto & Trio: Allegretto 3.19 Basil Cameron (1884-1975) Cameron adopted the name Basil Hindenburg during 12 IV Finale: Presto 3.50 his years in Berlin. It was as Hindenburg that he conducted the Torquay Municipal Orchestra London Mozart Players before the Great War. Hostilities seem to have resulted in his reverting to Cameron. He Harry Blech 2 February 1956 conducted the world premiere of Bax's Fourth Symphony in San Francisco (1930-32). There was then a longish stay with the Seattle Symphony (1932-38). A season in the late 1930s in London saw him recording in the Decca studios. His reputation now seems rather grey and this

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despite the BBC’s vote of confidence in some 320 broadcast concerts; many of these as a DISC 5 56.58 complement to Wood and then Sargent in the Henry Wood Proms. From the early 1930s there Symphony No. 96 in D major 'The Miracle', Hob 1:96 are radio instances of his conducting Haydn’s symphonies 31 and 102, the latter in the same 1 I Adagio-Allegro 6.33 1961 concert in which he premiered Bax’s Northern Ballad No. 1 - strange companions. As a 2 II Andante 6.58 continuation of his seaside orchestra days he also conducted the Hastings and St Leonard’s 3 III Menuetto & Trio: Allegretto 6.11 orchestra. 4 IV Finale: Vivace (assai) 3.28 BBC Symphony Orchestra Otto Klemperer (1885-1973) Almost fifty years after his death Klemperer’s name and Walter Goehr (1903-1960) 1 October 1953 standing continues to command awed respect. Born in Breslau (now Wroclaw in Poland) Klemperer studied with Pfitzner. He emigrated to the USA in the 1930s as Hitler came to power. Maida Vale Studio While in Los Angeles he struck up a friendship with Schoenberg and championed his works. NOTE. The significant groove damage to the acetate heard in the second movement of Symphony Passed over for principal conductorships of major city orchestras he eventually returned to No.96 between 8.44 and 10.00 has been restored to the greatest extent possible. Europe where he migrated from one concert to another until at the age of 70 he gained a reputation as an indomitable conductor of the Philharmonia. During the mid to late LP era he Symphony No. 30 in C 'Alleluja', Hob 1:30 was widely recorded by EMI in core German repertoire and gained and consolidated his eminence. Recordings of the Haydn symphonies 88, 92, 95, 98, 100-102 and 104 did well and 5 I Allegro 4.07 were reissued when the compact disc was in ascendancy. Even so radio broadcasts of live 6 II Andante 4.06 concerts with his Haydn were not numerous. 7 III Finale: Tempo di Menuet, piu tosto Allegretto 4.30 Boyd Neel Orchestra Hermann Scherchen (1891-1966) Scherchen, noted for his far from extravagant Louis Boyd Neel (1905-1981) 24 December 1952 arm and hand motions as a conductor who did not use the baton, was born in Berlin. By the mid 1930s he had left Germany and settled in Switzerland. He recorded extensively with the Symphony No. 53 in D 'L'impériale', Hob 1:53 works of Fricker, Weill, Searle, Dallapiccola, Schoenberg, Prokofiev, Dessau, Reger, Schoen- 8 I Largo maestoso-Vivace 6.43 berg, Mahler, Bartók, Glière, Tchaikovsky, Berlioz, Liszt and Beethoven in his roster. In the 9 II Andante 5.27 1950s he recorded Haydn’s symphonies: 44, 45¸ 49, 55, 80, 88, 92-104 with the Orchester 10 III Menuetto & Trio 4.26 der Wiener Staatsoper and the Wiener Symphoniker. Amongst his pupils were Karl Amadeus 11 IV Finale. Cappriccio: Presto 4.32 Hartmann, Karel Ancerl and Edward Downes. He often conducted the BBCSO from 1929 onwards featuring then contemporary music; he also had a strong association with ISCM. A Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Haydn symphony figured in his first programme with them, the Le Soir symphony. He was Paul Sacher (1906-1999) 18 November 1953 remarkably multifarious in his BBC concerts: appearing on BBCTV, programmes of light music Royal Festival Hall and with the wireless military band.

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Anthony Bernard (1891-1998) Bernard was to become known for his conducting talents but was also a composer. London-born, he studied piano with Holbrooke and Leonard DISC 4 68.38 Borwick and composition with Bantock and Ireland at the Birmingham and Midland Institute. He Symphony No. 64 in A major ‘Tempora mutantur’, Hob 1:64 founded the London Chamber Orchestra (LCO) concentrating on the repertoire ignored by the 1 I Allegro con spirito 6.29 larger orchestras: Delius and de Falla were prominent. In 1928 he became Director of the New 2 II Largo 7.55 English Music Society and in 1931-32 gave Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs and Benedicite, 3 III Menuet & Trio: Allegretto 2.49 Lambert’s Rio Grande and Moeran’s Whythorne’s Shadow and Lonely Waters. He was a strong 4 IV Finale: Presto 3.23 and life-long protagonist for the music of Lennox Berkeley and his was the pioneering recording BBC Symphony Orchestra of the Divertimento. Berkeley’s Sinfonietta was conducted by him with the LCO from a 1961 BBC Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900-1973) 20 November 1952 broadcast on Lyrita REAM1117. He also supported performances of works by Maurice Ohana. An early and informed advocate for Haydn, Bernard assisted with three Third Programme Maida Vale Studio documentaries “Haydn the Symphonist”: talks given by Robert Simpson with illustrations by Bernard and his orchestra. He wrote incidental music for radio productions of “The Bacchae of Symphony No. 92 in G major 'Oxford', Hob 1:92 Euripides” with the LCO and then in the 1970s with the Philomusica in a format adapted and 5 I Adagio-Allegro spiritoso 6.44 produced by Raymond Raikes. 6 II Adagio 7.48 7 III Menuet & Trio: Allegretto 4.24 Anthony Collins (1893-1963) Born in Hastings, Collins died in Los Angeles on 11 8 IV Presto 6.03 December 1963. After serving in World War I, he studied at the RCM with Boult and Holst until BBC Symphony Orchestra 1925. Having started out as a violist in Hastings he became lead viola with the LSO and the Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt 25 February 1956 Covent Garden Orchestra. He conducted for the Carl Rosa, Sadler's Wells and the Hastings Festival. His first conducting engagement in London with the LSO was a great success with an Maida Vale Studio outstanding performance of the Elgar First Symphony. His Elgar and Sibelius recordings have been reissued on Beulah. He established the London Mozart Orchestra in 1939; the same year Symphony No. 94 in G major 'The Surprise', Hob 1:94 he went to the USA, conducting in New York and Los Angeles and writing film scores for RKO 9 I Adagio-Vivace assai 7.20 Studios. After the war there was to be a return to the UK. He wrote symphonies (2), choral 10 II Andante 7.00 works and many lighter pieces including film music. He was not a BBC stalwart and as a 11 III Menuet & Trio: Allegro molto 4.51 conductor was a rara avis on the BBC Third Programme. 12 IV Finale: Allegro di molto 3.54 BBC Symphony Orchestra Reginald Jacques (1894-1969) A sterling, if low key, reputation has been boosted Eugen Jochum (1902-1987) 7 March 1956 into longevity by his far from numerous recordings with Kathleen Ferrier. An English choral and orchestral conductor, he was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. His degree and 14 7 HAYDN SYMPHONIES CC 9119 HAYDN SYMPHONIES

higher-level training took place at Queen's College, Oxford. Like Patrick Hadley he was severely Symphony No. 28 in A major, Hob 1:28 wounded during World War I. He founded the Jacques Orchestra in 1936 and conducted them, 12 I Allegro di molto 4.21 sometimes with the Bach Choir, until 1960. He has a small discography with his Jacques 13 II Poco Adagio 6.26 Orchestra, courtesy of Decca. Among his recordings, quite apart from his Bach and Handel, 14 III Menuet & Trio: Allegro molto 2.31 are to be found Bliss’s Pastoral - Lie Strewn the White Flocks with Nancy Evans and Holst’s St 15 IV Presto assai 2.56 Paul’s Suite, Howells’ Elegy, Foulds’ Celtic Lament and Vaughan Williams’ Greensleeves London Symphony Orchestra Fantasia. He was the dedicatee, and in some cases first performer, of works by Malcolm Arnold including (with a premiere at the 1949 Edinburgh Festival) Arnold’s First Clarinet Concerto with Stanley Pope (1901-1995) 9 December 1956 Frederick Thurston. There were also works by Cooke and Tippett: his Little Music for Strings.

Hans Rosbaud (1895-1962) An Austrian conductor, Rosbaud, rather like Boulez, became inextricably bound up in the music of the 20th century. His studies were conducted at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main. He held conducting posts in Mainz and Frankfurt where he secured a reputation with Schoenberg and Bartók premieres. Shortly after the war he became music director of the Munich Philharmonic then moving into the congenial posting of South West German Radio Orchestra in Baden-Baden. He remained there until his death nurturing his tastes for modern music. Parallel festivals of contemporary music including Donaueschingen were his bread and butter. His sympathies were in fact wide-ranging. Prominent in his legacy are recordings of the music of Bruckner, Mahler, Stravinsky and Boulez. He was closely associated with Karl Amadeus Hartmann, conducting premieres of the opera Simplicius Simplicissimus and the Second and Fourth Symphonies. Radio 3 audiences heard him in tapes of Dallapiccola, Barraud, Liebermann, Blacher, Penderecki, Stravinsky and Nono. There was also a series of Bruckner symphonies with the Munich Philharmonic in 1949. He favoured various non-musical activities including reading world literature in the original and engaging with scientific literature.

Stanley Pope (1901-1995) Pope, a Londoner, was rarely in the best of health. He studied in London and in Vienna and Switzerland. His teachers at Lausanne numbered Frank Martin (composition) and Paul Klecki (conducting). After the Second World War he conducted in Britain and on the Continent. Pope’s specialities were Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms and Strauss. His few commercial recordings are from the vinyl era and are sparse in number. Those

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that exist are on Philips: Schumann symphony No 4 in the original version and some of Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance marches. His BBC broadcasts, dating from the 1970s, included a DISC 3 78.41 selection of symphonies as part of Robert Simpson’s Havergal Brian ‘push’ within the Corpora- Symphony No. 6 in D major 'Le matin', Hob 1:6 tion. These same concerts also had him wielding the baton over works by Wagner, Beethoven, 1 I Adagio-Allegro 4.29 Mozart and Bach. Hardly any other radio concerts followed. Pope died in Switzerland of bone cancer. Simpson praised him for “exceptional gifts never recognised except by musicians” and 2 II Adagio-Andante-Adagio 7.32 spoke highly of his Beethoven Pastoral and a “glorious” Bruckner Fifth. 3 III Menuet & Trio 4.56 4 IV Finale: Allegro 3.16 Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900-1973) Conductor and composer, he was born in Boyd Neel Orchestra Berlin and studied music in Heidelberg and Münster. He was also a composition student with Anthony Collins (1893-1963) 12 January 1955 Schreker at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik. Spells of employment occurred at opera houses in Wuppertal (1923), Rostock (1928-1931), Darmstadt (1931-1933) and Hamburg (1935-1943). Symphony No. 25 in C major, Hob 1:25 In 1944 he became music director at the Berlin State Opera. He was unsullied by Nazi 5 I Adagio-Allegro molto 7.19 associations and founded and for years led the NDR Radio Symphony Orchestra. There he 6 II Menuet & Trio 3.53 included in his programmes Bartók, Stravinsky, Hindemith, Sibelius and Mahler although 7 III Presto 3.25 Mozart and the mainline classics also figured prominently. The BBC were regularly given access to and used Hamburg Radio tapes of his concerts especially in the 1940s and 1950s. Jacques Orchestra None of this precluded lead conducting positions in Éire and Stockholm. He caught Decca’s Reginald Jacques (1894-1969) 2 August 1953 eye and recorded the Beethoven symphonies and Piano Concertos with the Wiener Philhar- moniker. The British record producer Erik Smith was his son. BBC records show that he was Symphony No. 90 in C major, Hob 1:90 a champion of Tippett and conducted at least one work by Matyas Seiber. 8 I Adagio-Allegro assai 7.17 9 II Andante 9.51 Eugen Jochum (1902-1987) An eminent German conductor and composer, born 10 III Menuet & Trio 5.26 near Augsburg. Higher studies at Munich Conservatory saw him changing direction from 11 IV Finale: Allegro assai 5.05 composing to conducting. There his teacher was Siegmund von Hausegger, another promi- London Philharmonic Orchestra nent Brucknerian who also happened to be a composer. He held conducting posts in Hans Rosbaud (1895-1962) 19 April 1954 Mönchen-Gladbach, Kiel, Munich, Mannheim, Duisburg, Berlin and Hamburg and early on showed a love for Bruckner. In the early 1960s he was joint chief conductor of the Concertge- Royal Festival Hall bouw alongside Haitink. Conducting engagements came in London, Bamberg, Dresden, Salzburg and Bayreuth. Although he was not prolific on the BBC his LPO concerts of Haydn works put in radio appearances in the 1970s and his German radio tapes also found a place. Although the rising mainstream classics sustained his musical career, he also gave premieres 16 5 HAYDN SYMPHONIES CC 9119 HAYDN SYMPHONIES

of contemporary works by Blacher, Egk, von Einem and Hartmann (Symphony No. 6). Haydn’s DISC 2 69.19 London Symphonies were recorded commercially by Jochum. Symphony No. 101 in D major 'The Clock', Hob 1:101 1 I Adagio-Presto 7.56 Walter Goehr (1903-1960) Goehr was born in Berlin and his son Alexander, also a 2 II Andante 6.21 composer, was born there. He studied with Schoenberg. Well known in British film studios, his 3 III Menuet & Trio: Allegretto 7.09 film music included Great Expectations (1946). Walter Goehr made recordings of Bach and 4 IV Finale: Vivace 4.33 later of various ‘warhorse’ concertos with Noel Mewton-Wood in. His name was in some Philharmonia Orchestra measure kept alive by his conducting of the Philharmonia in the Tippett Concerto for Double Otto Klemperer (1885-1973) 26 August 1958 String Orchestra. Goehr was Tippett’s colleague at Morley College. That was in 1952 and it was later recorded and came out on a Music for Pleasure LP. His 1940s BBC radio music Usher Hall, included The Harbour called Mulberry, Radar and a Britten project, The Dark Tower. There was Edinburgh International Festival a Walter Goehr Orchestra and Goehr immersed himself in lively repertoire including, in 1951, pioneering BBC broadcasts of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 with Morley College forces. There Symphony No. 29 in E major, Hob 1:29 were to be some 400 radio broadcast concerts on the BBC. His son’s Little Symphony was 5 I Allegro ma non troppo 4.14 written “In memoriam Walter Goehr”. 6 II Andante 6.49 7 III Menuet & Trio: Allegretto 4.35 Boyd Neel (1905-1981) Boyd Neel was a general medical practitioner who kept his 8 IV Finale: Presto 3.53 career going fully in tandem with that of a successful conductor and musical entrepreneur; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra eventually, he emigrated to Canada. Among other things his orchestra played British repertoire for strings and Lyrita have issued a 1961 example on REAM1117. His eponymous orchestra Hermann Scherchen (1891-1966) 22 September 1952 was recruited in 1932 from the RCM and RAM and debuted in June 1933. In 1936 the orchestra and conductor made the first recording of Vaughan Williams’ Tallis Fantasia. There Symphony No. 91 in E flat major, Hob 1:91 was an invitation to the 1937 Salzburg Festival and for this event Britten composed for them 9 I Largo-Allegro assai 8.57 his Bridge Variations. From 1947 onwards there were world tours. 1952 saw Neel appointed 10 II Andante 5.38 as Dean of the Royal Conservatory of Music at Toronto, Ontario where he remained for 18 11 III Menuet & Trio: Un poco Allegretto 4.25 years. He founded the Hart House Orchestra in Toronto. There were other English music 12 IV Finale: Vivace 4.51 recordings including Finzi’s Dies Natalis with Joan Cross. The BBC’s records reveal many radio London Chamber Orchestra broadcasts but few in which he directed Haydn symphonies; there were a handful in the 1950s. Anthony Bernard (1891-1998) 19 November 1956

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Paul Sacher (1906-1999) The long-lived Sacher was a wealthy patron of the musical world, a prolific commissioner of scores and, of course, a conductor. His patronage was fuelled DISC 1 60.28 by having in 1934 married the widow of a major shareholder in Hoffmann-La Roche pharmaceu- Symphony No. 80 in D minor, Hob 1:80 ticals. Later he was to become a leading member of the board. Those who were fortunate to 1 I Allegro spiritoso 3.48 receive commissions from him included Stravinsky, Bartók, Martin, Honegger, Martin, Hin- 2 II Adagio 7.24 demith, Henze, Strauss and Carter. Basle’s Paul Sacher Foundation continues his life’s work 3 III Menuetto & Trio: Allegretto 3.22 and is the home for manuscript collections of the works and lives of Stravinsky, Lutosławski, 4 IV Finale: Presto 3.44 Ligeti and Boulez among others. Sacher’s concerts were pretty thoroughly broadcast by the BBC Symphony Orchestra BBC. Haydn symphonies enlivened his concert programmes in 1949 (53), 1953 (53)¸1954 (7), Fritz Stiedry (1883-1968) 8 October 1955 1968 (44) and 1980 (22).

Jean Martinon (1910-1976) Martinon was known as a French conductor and more Symphony No. 83 in G minor 'La poule', Hob 1:83 distantly as a composer. Born in Lyon he studied with Roussel, d'Indy, Munch and Désormière. 5 I Allegro spiritoso 6.04 His long list of compositions includes symphonies (4), concertos (7), choral works and chamber 6 II Andante 7.48 music. His orchestras included those at Chicago, Düsseldorf and the Hague as well as the 7 III Menuet & Trio: Allegretto 3.43 French National, the Israel Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic and the Concerts Lam- 8 IV Finale: Vivace 3.10 oureux. He had engagements with BBC Third Programme but they were not numerous. His BBC Symphony Orchestra one Haydn symphony made a strange companion in a Royal Festival Hall concert alongside Nicolai Malko (1883-1961) 31 January 1960 Ravel L’enfant et les Sortilèges and André Navarra playing the Lalo Cello Concerto. This is the only Haydn symphony concert BBC online archive. Symphony No. 102 in B flat major, Hob 1:102 9 I Largo-Allegro vivace 7.30 Harry Blech (1910-1999) Blech, London-born, was a pupil of Arthur Catterall in 10 II Adagio 4.09 Manchester. Later he studied in Czechoslovakia with Otakar Ševík. He joined the Hallé in 1929. 11 III Menuetto & Trio: Allegro 5.19 During the 1930s he was a member of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and in wartime turned his hand to form the London Wind Players from members of the RAF orchestra. In 1948 he 12 IV Finale: Presto 4.32 founded the London Mozart Players and conducted them until 1984. There was to be a BBC Symphony Orchestra diminutive clutch of Decca and EMI studio recordings by Blech and the LMP. Many of these Basil Cameron (1884-1975) 25 May 1956 have been reissued by First Hand Records. His last conducting engagement was at the Fairfield Maida Vale Studio Halls in Croydon in 1992. His BBC concert broadcasts, all dating from 1956, of Haydn symphonies comprised Nos. 43, 52, 85 and 103.

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Joseph Haydn, Symphonies Geraint Jones (1917-1998) A prize-winning student at the Royal Academy of Music, Jones was a son of the Church. The Baroque, especially Bach, Handel, Mozart and Gluck, drew his creative fire to which he coupled a dedication to authenticity of style. These were his obsessions as conductor and keyboardist. It was in this latter capacity that he figured strongly Recordings from in Dame Myra Hess's National Gallery wartime concerts. His second wife was violinist Winifred Roberts and with her he gave numerous concerts. Roberts was the leader of the Geraint Jones The Itter Broadcast Collection, 1952-1960 Orchestra. Jones took Stephen Bishop under his wing and together they gave all of Mozart's piano concertos across several seasons at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. A committed yeoman of BBC broadcasts of concert and studio performances given festivals he, in the 1970s and 1980s, steered a number including Lake District, Salisbury and Manchester. Musical training and his loyalty to musical values were further imparted to by 11 orchestras and 19 conductors generations of student at the RAM where he was a Professor (1961-88). He died in London.

All the recordings presented here were made ‘off-air’ using a state-of-the-art tape Harry Newstone (1921-2006) Newstone was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His name machine. Subsequently they were archived on disc acetates – the tapes themselves being is little known now. To all intents and purposes he set out as a virtuoso harmonica player but erased and reused. The performance of Symphony 103, conducted by Harry Newstone, after four years of studying with Herbert Howells and Robert Simpson (with whom he was to is the only one for which the original tape survives. work on new editions of the Beethoven symphonies and on Havergal Brian) his compass shifted towards conducting. Studies at the Guildhall School and Royal Academy of Music led The discs were stored upright in a single location, they had probably never been moved to a scholarship to the Accademia Santa Cecilia. Newstone founded the Haydn Orchestra in or played, and so have survived more than 60 years in remarkably good condition. 1949 and contributed a Haydn ‘strand’ as part of 1951’s Festival of Britain. premiere commer- cial recordings were of Haydn’s Nos 49 and 73. He took part in a project with BBC Wales to The original documentation, by both cataloguing and typed centre labels on each disc make a complete recording of the Haydn symphonies. Newstone’s Eulenberg Edition of the gives full details of the performers and transmission dates. Richard Itter was generous in Haydn Symphonies continues to attract praise. More than 100 Haydn concerts by Newstone are documented by the BBC. He died in Victoria, British Columbia. not trying to fit too much music on each side – but rather less kind when it came to the abrupt fades on last notes and applause. Rob Barnett, April 2020 Here is a rich smorgasbord of Haydn from a wide range of conductors : some reached back into the 19th century, some were the travelling maestros of their time, and some formed British Orchestras that enriched the diet of our nations musical life.

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Everything here, except the Tchaikovsky Symphony, comes from a single concert given in a studio on 5 May 1954. It’s a real surprise Symphonies and delight to find him conducting Malcolm Arnold. Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody No.1 was a tried and tested Stoky favourite. This BBC reading is sufficiently vibrant to excite the ear of the conductor’s admirers - excellent flute, tight pizzicati and plenty of character. Recordings from 1952-1960 This is his only performance of Arnold’s Beckus the Dandipratt and it catches the raucous brio as well as the joviality of the music to The Itter Broadcast Collection near-perfection. Stokowski savours the strands of its luscious coloration and is no hurry to end; it’s one of the longer performances of the work. Jonathan Woolf, MusicWeb Beside the Horlicks and Bournevita conventionally offered in versions of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth this is a reviving draught. The second movement is given one of the most affecting readings ever. The third movement has an urgent lilt and the blurt and blare of the brassy finale rasps off a layer of skin. At the close of the finale every fanfare is skirled with grand panache. It receives a volcanic eruption of applause. You’ve got to hear it. It’s very special. CC 9107 www.wyastone.co.uk for details Rob Barnet, MusicWeb

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