Leon Goossens and Orchestra
"HE famed oboist Leon Goossens, who recently completed a tour of New Zealand, will be on the air again shortly in a programme recorded. with the National Orchestra of the NZBS. He will perform Vivaldi’s Concerto for Oboe and Strings, and Volkmar Andreae’s Concertino for Oboe and Orchestra. The programme, to be heard on August 8, will be the second in a series of seven recorded concerts to be broadcast by all YA stations at 2.0 p.m. on
consecutive Sundays. The first concert, on August 1, will have the pianist Janetta McStay as soloist in performances of Mozart’s Concerto in D Minor, K.466, and five movements from Serenade No. 4, K.203. Other artists to be heard during the series are the sopranos Dorothy Hopkins and Lily Latischeva and the pianist George Simpson. Two concerts will be purely orchestral: Three hornpipes from Dvorak’s Symphony No. 2, and the Walton Symphony. The latter will be a recording of the first New Zealand performance of this work at Auckland on August 14. Before the broadcast there will be a short introductory talk by Alex Lindsay, who has performed the work with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the | baton of the composer. The symphony was first performed in London in De-| cember, 1934, while yet incomplete. The finale was not added till a year later.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 783, 23 July 1954, Page 25
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225Leon Goossens and Orchestra New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 783, 23 July 1954, Page 25
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