Vaughan Williams 'Serenade to Music' - Sir Henry Wood's 1938 recording discussed by John Steane 

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!

Very interesting & informative broadcast !

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.

Many thanks for the upload.

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!

Years before, Wood had conducted the premiere of Schonberg's Five Pieces for Orchestra, when hardly anyone else would dare.

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.

What a joy to hear John Steane again. With perfectly chosen examples and a quiet scholarship. Thank you.