Directed by Guy Daines
Adam Hogg (bass-baritone)
THE STORY of Daudet's play relates how a young Provencal farmer is torn between a passion for a dancer of Aries, a neighbouring town, and h:s repulsion against what he realises has been her life in the past. He cannot forget her, nor can he overlook her unworthiness, and takes his own life as a way out of his tragic dilemma. The Prelude epitomises the dramatic elements of the play; the Minuet is a solo for flute with harp accompaniment; the Adagietto for muted strings only, accompanies, in the play, the meeting of the hero's mother and her former lover whom she has not seen for fifty years.
ORCHESTRA
Familiar Scottish Airs arr. K. Stephen
(Scottish Regional Programme)