THE VIRTUOSO QUARTET: MARJORIE HAYWARD (1st Violin). EDWIN VIRGO (2nd Violin), RAYMOND JEREMY (Viola), CEDRIC SHARPE ('Cello)
JAMES CHING (Solo Piano)
THE LONDON MALE VOICE OCTET
WHEN Haydn heard our National 'Anthem in England ho was greatly impressed. and determined to try' to write one equally worthy for his own people.
Haydn's tune is well known to us, because it is the tune (called Austria) commonly sung to the hymn ' Glorious things of Thee are spoken.' He based this ' Emperor's Hymn ' on a popular tune of his native country, Croatia, and later he wrote these Variations on the-Time, and made them one of the Movements of a String Quartet.
The Tune is first played through, and then the four simple Variations follow.