Very good to have this! I remember the original broadcast. I knew John Steane, and met Eva Turner several times, and Isobel Baillie just once. I have their autographs!
Thank you so much for this recording with pictures and music scores . Like black white film put into colour. Discovered this music on radio and plagued me. So eventually bought it on CD.
Wonderful! At the premiere Rachmaninoff, a guest of Sir Henry, listened to it and wept, declaring he had never been so moved by a piece of music. Definitely not "sick" as Weingartner suspected. Such a wonderful array of soloists!! Eva Turner sounds sensational in the Turandot excerpt!
Thank you. Now I can begin to understand why there are so few recordings of this beautiful and sensitive interpretation of the scene in the Merchant of Venice.