From the classical archive, April 1978: the first ever BBC Young Musician of the Year competition

From the archive, 10 April 1978: David Fanning reports on the finals of the very first BBC Young Musician competitionMichael Hext, the seventeen-year-old trombonist, is BBC Television Young Musician of the Year, and a worthy winner. He was the only finalist who consistently projected a full-bodied tone, and though the instrument gave him an obvious advantage in this respect, the onus was firmly on the others to match it.Stephen Hough did himself less than justice with a very small scale Mozart P...

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