Sir Henry Wood conducts Shepherds Hey (Grainger)

This short film, found in a skip, clearly shows how Sir Henry Wood, creator of the Proms, used his long baton to great effect.

Sir Henry Wood conducting Beethoven and Bach is featured on a new Beulah compact disc visit
http://wood.eavb.co.uk/

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• wood

[grai]

Amazing - what year was this?

[A60stock]

@grai  1937

[tromuniapp]

no-one be the ass that dislikes this

[presbyterosBassI]

This is great! I had no idea films like this existed.

[salexlindsay]

Treasure

[drigin1234]

I just love it one of my favourite pieces of music

thankyou

[ofthetoo]

I love the tempo, especially how it speeds up at the end. I like this string version verses the band version. It's kind of raggedy, not precise, nor contrived; it's just refreshing. It is after all Shepherd's Hey.

[mrsax13]

i prefer the band version

[A60stock]

Trash can

[RyaZila24]

he conducts pretty big for everything

you can't really tell the difference for some dynamics