Doctor Merryheart

1 movement, 1911-12†, 17:30

3 flutes (1 also picc), 2 oboes, cor anglais, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horn, 3 horns, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, side drum, cymbals, triangle, tambourine, glockenspiel, harp, strings

United Music Publishing Limited

Timings

Newstone 1959Leaper 1993
Total18:3316:00

Articles

• Introduction – David J Brown

Performances

3 January 1913 [first performance] Birmingham Town Hall (Music League/Incorporated Society of Musicians Festival)
a Festival Orchestra, conductor Julius Harrison
7 October 1913 Queen’s Hall, London (Prom)
Conductor Sir Henry Wood
December 1933
two broadcasts from Hamburg
17 January 1934 Winter Gardens, Bournemouth
live broadcast
Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra, conductor Sir Dan Godfrey
16 October 1936 studio
live broadcast 9:45pm BBC Midland Programme
BBC Midland Orchestra, conductor Clarence Raybould
8 May 1937 studio
live broadcast
BBC Orchestra, conductor Clarence Raybould
27 March 1939 studio
live broadcast BBC
BBC Orchestra, conductor Clarence Raybould
?1940 ((probably _Dr Merryheart_))
CBS Symphony Orchestra, conductor Bernard Hermann
27 December 1956 studio
live broadcast Home Service [BBC Radio 4]
BBC Northern Orchestra, conductor John Hopkins
8 April 1959 Hammersmith Town Hall
5 November 1959 Third Programme [BBC Radio 3]
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Harry Newstone
18 November 1978 St John’s Smith Square, London
Young Musicians’ Symphony Orchestra, conductor James Blair
14–15 July 1979 City Hall, Hull, UK
City of Hull Youth Symphony Orchestra, conductor Geoffrey Heald-Smith
6 September 1993 National Concert Hall, Dublin
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, conductor Adrian Leaper

Recordings

Dutton Vocalion CDBP 9798
8 April 1959 Hammersmith Town Hall
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Harry Newstone
Cameo Classics CC9014CD-2 (2 discs) released 1994
14–15 July 1979 City Hall, Hull, UK
City of Hull Youth Symphony Orchestra, conductor Geoffrey Heald-Smith
• Review of City of Hull Youth SO CDs – David J Brown
• Review of Hull Youth SO recording – Lewis Foreman
Naxos 8.572014 released July 2010
6 September 1993 National Concert Hall, Dublin
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, conductor Adrian Leaper
• Introduction to the Marco Polo CD – Malcolm MacDonald
• The Marco Polo cycle – David J Brown
• Review – John Grimshaw