Relayed from the Queen's Hall
THE HALLÉ ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Sir HAMILTON HARTY
LEOPOLD GODOWSKY (Pianoforte)
THERE are two Movements in Bach's Concerto with no break between ; they are connected by two sustained chords. Both Movements nre quick. The second is rather like a jig, in the familiar rhythm of two-in-a-bar, each beat being divided into three bits.
BERLIOZ in this work follows the moods of an imaginary love-sick youth, whose constant thought is his beloved maiden. She is represented by a melody which appears in various forms during the course of the work. This (fairly long) theme first occurs near the beginning of the First Movement, which is entitled Visions and Passions. The titles of the other four Movements are respectively, A Ball, Scenes in the Country, March to the Scaffold (here, says the composer, the youth dreams he has murdered the woman he loves, that he is under sentence of death, and is being led to execution '), and finally Dream of a Witches' Sabbath.