(Section A)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Introduction and Allegro for string quartet and string orchestra.....Elgar La mer (The sea) Three symphonic sketches: From dawn to noon at sea ; Play of the waves ; and Dialogue of the wind and the sea
Debussy
Elgar's Introduction and Allegro was composed in January- February, 1905. It owed its origin to the hearing of a song, with a particularly attractive cadence of a falling third, sung in the distance on an occasion when Elgar was in Wales. Later a song heard in the Wye valley recalled his Welsh experience with the result that he set to work on this Introduction and Allegro, the principal tune of which is a pseudo-Welsh tune of his own invention, complete with the cadence of a falling third.