From the archive, 4 October 1932: Bach's "The Art of Fugue"

Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 4 October 1932LONDON, MONDAY NIGHTThe London music season, which will be almost violent in its competitive activity, began to-night at Queen's Hall with the first performance in England of Bach's "The Art of Fugue", in the orchestral arrangement of a young German named Graeser. Hans Weisbach, who conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, secured a fine interpretation of a work which is one of the seven wonders of human cerebration. A distinguishe...

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