continuo player in Ernest Ansermet’s 1929 Decca performances of Handel's six Concerti Grossi, Op. 6. He was one of the four pianists who recorded Stravinsky’s Les Noces in 1934, produced by Joe Batten for Columbia with the composer conducting. (The other pianists were Berkely Mason, C.E. Benlow and Ernest Lush). But his first recordings for Legge came in 1938, conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Fantasia on Beethoven’s Die Ruinen von Athen with Egon Petri as the soloist. In 1941 he conducted the Hallé Orchestra in Haydn's Symphony No. 103, the Grieg, John Ireland and Shostakovich piano concertos with Benno Moiseiwitsch and Eileen Joyce, and overtures by Johann Strauss and Borodin. But of particular note was his landmark recording at the end of 1942 with the Halle of E.J Moeran's Symphony in G minor - a work which he had first conducted at its premiere in January 1938 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Heward was also a composer, but he rarely conducted his own music and destroyed many of his scores. His works include two operas (the early, unfinished Hamlet and Peer Gynt) and several orchestral works, including an early symphonic poem (The Mermaid, 1915), as well as the Dance Suite (1920), Nocturne (1927) and Quodlibet (1931). The Nocturne, broadcast by the BBC on 19 February 1939, was based on music from his opera Peer Gynt. Quodlibet is a substantial suite in five thematically-related movements: 'Exposition', 'Studies', 'Air and Caprice', 'Plaint', and 'Bagatelle'. It was first performed and broadcast on 1 May 1932. Chamber works include a string quartet, the Variations on an Original Theme for two pianos, as well as songs and partsongs, including The Witches' Sabbath (1930) for unaccompanied choir, setting Ben Jonson. He also wrote, arranged and directed the music for an early film, The Loves of Robert Burns (1929). References Bibliography 1897 births 1943 deaths English conductors (music) British male conductors (music) 20th-century British conductors (music) People from Liversedge Pupils of Charles Villiers Stanford Musicians from Yorkshire 20th-century English composers 20th-century British male musicians