Arthur Bliss

Hommage au 50ème anniversaire de sa disparition

CD 1 

A colour symphony (1946)a

Concerto pour piano F.108b

March : The Phoenix F.94 (Hommage à la France)c

CD 2 

Morning Heroes F.32d

Concerto pour 2 pianos F.110e

Mêlée fantasque F.119f

John Ogdon, piano

Cyril Smith & Phyllis Sellick, pianos

Donald Douglas (orateur)

BBC Chorus and Choral Society

Alexandra Choir

Croydon Philharmonic Society

London Symphony Orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra

BBC Northern Orchestra

Arthur Bliss

BBC Live Broadcasts of the Henry Wood Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London:

 a  2 August 1961 (Proms Day 10: Bliss’s 70th birthday concert) 

b  2 August 1966 (Proms Day 9: Bliss’s 75th birthday concert) 

d  16 August 1968 (Proms Day 26) 

e  16 August 1969 (Proms Day 26)*

c  BBC Live Broadcast: BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale, London, 24 November 1965

f BBC Live Broadcast: Milton Hall, Deansgate, Manchester, 2 October 1966