24 OCTOBER 1941, Page 10

There was youthfulness in the programme at the Cambrido Theatre

last Sunday afternoon—Weber's fairies and Mendel& sohn's, Dohnanyi's Variations on a Nursery Rhyme, which co tains one of the half-dozen really good musical jokes, and most young-eyed of mature symphonies, Schubert's C major, These works were played by the London Symphony Orchesta under Mr. Charles Brill, a young conductor, *horn I had no previously heard. He has the merit of not fussing the players and of letting the composer have his say without clever glosses On the other hand, he does not always help 'ale players when they most need it—in Weber's fugato, for instance, and at beginning of Mendelssohn's Nocturne—and he is apt to let music, plod, so that it becomes, as cooks say, sad and heavy.

DYNELEY HUSSEY.