Schubert (arr. Jack Byfield): Serenade
Tom Jenkins, violin; Sydney Ffoulkes, piano
Recorded 1939-52 live broadcasts
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Tom Jenkins was a virtuoso violinist who led the BBC's Grand Hotel broadcasts on Sunday evenings in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He died in 1957 aged forty seven. In 1995, his widow Michelle sold his Stradivarius violin for £375,000. With this, she established the Tom Jenkins Trust which went on to provide an annual award for the best stringed instrument manufactured by a student at the Guildhall University (subsequently London Metropolitan).
(https://www.wcomarchive.org.uk/--tom-jenkins)
