Humphrey Burton introduces part of one of the concerts of British music that opened this year's Jubilee season at the Henry Wood Proms.
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra leader ALAN TRAVERSE conductor Sir Charles Groves
Ralph Kirshbaum (cello)
Malcolm Arnold 's lively Overture: Beckus the Dandipratt opens the concert and is followed by Delius's Fantasy: In a Summer Garden. The young Texas-born RALPH KIRSHBAUM is soloist in one of the most loved of all English works, the Cello Concerto of Elgar.
Lighting CLIVE POTTER. Sound vie GODRICH Director DAVID BUCKTON
Purcell's Hail, bright Cecilia