Synopsis

This excerpt documents a performance from the Promenade Concert, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in celebration of Sir Arthur Bliss's seventy-fifth birthday, the esteemed Composer to the Queen. John Ogdon is the featured soloist, performing Bliss's Piano Concerto, composed in 1939. The concerto was originally written for the 1939 New York World's Fair and is performed here with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Hugh Maguire as Leader, and conducted by Sir Arthur Bliss himself. Prior to the