Extra Tracks

Below are tracks from our library that never made it onto one of our compact discs. They can be downloaded here as high quality 320kbs AAC encoded (MP3) files. Those originating on 78rpm discs are raw and no attempt to clean up the surface noise had been made although we have removed some loud cracks and bangs. Please note the previews are compressed files so the sound is not as good as that on the whole track.

Tracks can be downloaded from this page,
price GBP 0.95 each

Purchasers of tracks have unlimted personal use but must not pass or sell on to third parties nor broadcast without prior permission from PPL

Herbert Hamilton Harty (1879-1941)

Harty was born in Hillsborough, County Down, Ireland, into a musical family. Following in his father's footsteps, he held positions as a church organist from the age of twelve, moving to Bray at the age of sixteen and rapidly becoming involved in musical activities in Dublin. It was about then that Harty began to compose in earnest. Harty became well known as an accompanist which stood him in good stead when in 1901 he left Ireland for London. Thereafter he concentrated increasingly on his conducting, working with the London Symphony Orchestra for two seasons, and from 1920 to 1933 was conductor of the Hallé Orchestra. The Hallé is Britain's longest established professional symphony orchestra. During the 1920's and 30's, due to Harty's careful training, the Hallé was widely regarded as the premier Symphony Orchestra in the UK. He introduced music by Bax, Sibelius, Holst, Vaughan Williams, Debussy, and Ravel to the orchestra and played the piano part in the first performance of Lambert's Rio Grande. He also conducted the first performance of Walton's First Symphony (in both its incomplete and final versions) and the first British performances of Mahler's Ninth and Shostakovich's First Symphonies.

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