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Thank you for sharing, I am a fan of Hollywood golden age music, and Korngold was a musical genius. He created so much gorgeous melodies for or without the screen.

This is wonderful! A viola player in the Cleveland Orchestra (which played this with Petrenko last year) told me that this is really incredibly difficult to play for the strings................and you perhaps see here in John Georgiadis' interactions with Previn why Szell was not a fan!

Wonders happen when the conductor knows the score so well. It doesn't happen very often nowadays by performing modern music. Previn leads the orchestra with in a very simple but very effective way. And it works! Splendid orchestra, amazing winds! Thank you for sharing this precious document

3:12 "Walton began writing his first symphony when he was only 30" Mozart: "Hold my Bier"

An absolute Gem, I once met Benjamin Britter, as a child, introduced to me by my late uncle, the composer Peter Haysom Craddy. My favourite piece of Classical? music, presented here by meastro Sir Malcom Sargent (who always wore a buttonhole, I read)

He had a supreme facility, unmatched to this day. A true genius

Mr Harris, I had forgotten about this video and in truth I sometimes get comments from viewers about videos I had forgotten I had uploaded. That aside I am contacting with regards to your work involving Gilbert O'Sullivan with John Peel in 1968 when you engineered Gilbert's recordings. I had left a message for you on another of your videos asking if you had any or all material for this session. The message was left and I thought no more about until I received a reply either from you or someone else using your page on which you said you would be happy to pass on Gilbert's John Peel sessions. Since then I have had no response. If it was you offering Gilbert's material I am still interested, if you have changed your mind I understand. I would not be selling or passing on anything. Having been in contact with Ray for many years I understand his desire for keeping his non released material safe..... Regards Paul

I heard this played at senior school in the 1980s (a vinyl record) during music lessons. As I have a musical background and blessed with perfect pitch, the key is D minor (it finishes triumphantly in D major). I can play violin and viola, sing alto in a church choir and remember Richard Baker narrating this work.

Thanks, very good documentary. Someone know's who's the first violon (leader) who discusses with Prévin ?

I was unfamiliar with both of these superb performers...So honored to make their acquaintances!...Will research and listen to more!...Thankyou!

😓 'Promo sm'

always likes Korngold's music and saw the films at the Thalia in NYC years ago. I met Slatkin once when I was in Aspen and a bunch of us got together for music, food and lots of booze. Slatkin and Marty Verdrager, a theory teacher at Juilliard when i was there, were playing a piano 4 hand version on Mahler 5. Great time and great people. This was in 1972.

Thank you! Do you have the equally wonderful Rozsa episode by any chance?

Previn and Walton, pure joy!

I was serving in a military band , on the morning news, on the very same morning it was announced , that Dennis Brain had died in a tragic accident, that will leave the who musical world with a loss that will difficult to fulfill. Indeed the the Philharmonia was renamed the New Philharmonia, Alan Civil leading the horn section. Dennis brain was my hero, before his timely death and still is.💂

So grateful to have found this. I was a student at Windsor Boys' School in the 80s and was extremely lucky to have been taught and influenced greatly by Nick. None of the boys will have had any kind of idea just how deep and wide Nick's life and musical experience ran. A living legend!

Masterpiece

Sir Robert Helpmann explains to all of us what the practice is about. So many think it’s all about what goes into the feet, what the feet do. It's about the whole body moving in a way to the music that doesn't even seem physically possible. Musicality is necessary. Crucial, even. "Bobby" gives us the lowdown. It's been said classical ballet is the hardest. The fact that he did it is a testimony to what he was... and how this should inspire all of us... And to Allen Harris, thanks for keep the legacy alive and burning...

Korngold's music is bombastic and emotionally pallid that's why he's almost forgotten today.

A wonderful symphony - one of my favourites

Welch wunderbare Künstler haben wir vertrieben… Gott sei Dank .. gelang es Korngold

How wonderful!!!!! Previn and a group of such talented musicians and a great symphonic work!!

Wonderful show! I saw Slatkin conduct the LA Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl 50 some-odd years ago and it's remained fresh in my memory. The personal reminiscentses of Hollywood, the WB Studio, the music scene, the Allers, the Slatkins, and of course the towering genius Korngold really made an hour go by very quickly. Thank you so much for posting this: what a great gift!

This is just wonderful. Can anybody tell me who the LSO trombone section was at this time?

Walton's First Symphony is a colossal masterpiece and an emotional blockbuster. The "best" (I mean most powerful) performance I've ever heard is Previn and LSO; it's very interesting to see them rehearse. A fascinating programme with the insights of the great man himself, William Walton.

Nice to hear this. Walton did wonderful work with the Academy of St Martin's in the Field. BBC produces nothing but pop culture these days, sickening.

Excellent, indeed ! Many thanks. I am captivate.

Just the greatest rendition of young persons guide to the orchestra.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Moira Shearer, seen dancing at the 5:36 mark of this video, is the star of the Powell and Pressburger film “The Red Shoes.” Great movie and it was released as a 4K disc last year.

Not forgetting Tubby the Tuba and Spark's Magic Piano 🤪

Thank you so much for posting this. Fred was my cello teacher and gave me this recording years ago and unfortunately I lost it while moving. It is so wonderful to see it again, and to remember his fantastic playing and the deep connection between music and the entire family. RIP Dr. Zlotkin

Can you imagine the BBC making such a programme these days?

Mr. Harris, It has just been brought to my attention as you were the engineer at the BEEB when Gilbert recorded his as far as we know, seven songs. It took me until the 1990's just to track down 3 'I Didn't Know What To Do' Disappear' 'Better Than Valentino'. Are you aware of any other songs Gilbert sang in those sessions and more important are you in a position to pass on what you have.? I have been lucky enough to find many of Gilbert's acetates over the years and would be happy to trade for what you have.

Fascinating . Thank you for this. I wish someone would post the 80th birthday concert with Previn conducting in the RFH.

So happy to find this film. Years ago I had a cassette tape of Sir Malcolm conducting YPGO that I wore out. Brings back wonderful musical memories of my youth. Thank You!

Somehow this commission elicited this inspired work, so full of musical humor at its best. And so it has introduced Britten to millions - "a very good place to start."

How wonderful pure European culture, we should all weep at the way it's looked down on ....

I think I'd heard that Britten had been commissioned to write the Young Person's Guide for a childrens film about the instruments of the orchestra but this is the first time I've seen the film along including what I assume must be the first ever recording/performance of the music played by a vintage LSO. There are a few things which occur to me watching the film which was made in 1946 only a year after the ending of WW2 and slap, bang in the middle of a grey austere Britain which was still in the grip of strict food and materials rationing. Firstly there appear to be very few young players in the orchestra which seems to comprise mostly aged (and some very aged) players. I wonder if this reflects the fact that many musicians hadn't yet been demobbed from the armed forces or the fact that younger and better musicians of the time were being attracted to the 2 newest and better paying (?) of London's orchestras which were both formed in 1946: the RPO under Beecham and the Philharmonia by producer Waler Legge. As far as the orchestra is concerned I find it interesting to see the flutes section are all playing ebony instruments which have pretty much disappeared from the modern symphony orchestra in favour of metal ones which have a greater dynamic range. The horns sound - and there's no other way of putting this - ropey as hell. All the brass appear to be playing the narrow bore instruments of the time and you can hear that sound especially in the trumpets and trombones - I couldn't help noticing the G Bass trombone complete with handle (!) which is extinct in 2023. The hand tuned timpani are equally obsolete today and sound like tuned planks of wood (sorry).

What I love about Previn's conducting is he never lets the tempi get slow or mawkish. This masterpiece of a symphony is packed with emotion so keeping the momentum is crucial.

Sorry not to have been able to attend this event, neither in person, nor online, as I had some important health-related commitments throughout the day. However, thanks to Nick for an interesting talk.

First viewer! I've only just posted this. Glad you enjoyed it. As you might have guessed I've been sorting through my video archive. Who knows what else I might find to share...?!

Nothing like a bit of Wednesday nostalgia!

Thank you! Great film, a pity not so many people saw this!

Together with the legendary 1963 Stokowski performance the best I ever listened! Sir Malolm and the LSO are brilliant!

Sargent's nickname was "Flash" . When conductor (and renowned wit) Sir Thomas Beecham, on heard that Sargent had been conducting in Tokyo he quipped: "Ah....Flash in Japan!"

Remembered watching this at secondary school in the 60s.

Originally broadcast 23rd March 1977, according to BBC Genome website. Thanks for making programme available 👍

Interesting to see how the bow- hold has changed for double basses since then. You don't see that kind of bowhold anymore

Great to see this on UA-cam for posterity. I remember seeing this documentary. So touching to see his music being performed. I often wondered what happened to his work. RIP Ray. You loved life your own way ❤️

A great performance!