Leader, Leonard Hirsch
Conductor, Eric Fogg
Leonard Hirsch (violin)
Jean Philippe Rameau, the great French composer contemporary with Bach, Handel, Domenico Scarlatti, and his countryman Couperin, was primarily an opera composer, carrying on the splendid tradition of his predecessor, Lully, who died a few years after Rameau was born. But Rameau wrote music in all forms, particularly harpsichord music, of which, with Couperin and Scarlatti, he was one of the great exponents of his time.
For Rameau, music was the thing that mattered, and nothing else. And the fact that Rameau's reputation as a musician and a thinker probably stands higher today than it did in his own time must be his supreme vindication. As M. Louis Laloy puts it, ' His story is the story of a mind that is trying to emerge from obscurity-and in the end succeeds in doing so.' LEONARD HIRSCH AND ORCHESTRA
Concerto No. 3, in B minor, Op. 61
Saint Saens
1 Allegro non troppo. 2 Andantino quasi allegretto. 3 Molto moderato e maestoso—Allegro non troppo
ORCHESTRA
Fantasy-Scenes (From an Eastern
Romance) Harty 1 The Laughing Juggler. 2 A Dancer's Reverie. 3 Lonely in Moonlight. 4 In the Slave Market