Conducted by Warwick Braithwaite
Moeran's tone poem ' Whythorne's Shadow ', scored with exquisite delicacy, is based on the fine and expressive melody of a song by Thomas Whythorne , who lived during the sixteenth century. Moeran has said that the key to his music is the words of the original song :
As thy shadow itself apply'th
To follow thee whereso thou go,
And when thou bends, itself it wry'th, Turning as thou both to and fro : The flatterer doth even so, And shopes himself the same to gloze, With many a fawning and gay show, Whom he would frame for his purpose.
The Magic Mirror'
Hurlstone's fairy suite ' The Magic Mirror ' is based on the story of * Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs '. It was written when the composer was twenty-six years of age and performed by Sir Henry Wood at the Proms and later at the Crystal Palace.