Triumphal March, Cleopatra - Mancinelli
Liebestlieder (Love Song) Waltzes (and Selection) - Brahms, arr. Gerrard Williams
A Night on the Bare Mountain - Mussorgsky
Poetical Scenes: 1. In the Woods; 2. In the Village - Godard

As early as 1858 Mussorgsky contemplated an opera on Gogol's story, 'St. John's Eve'. A year or two later he was attracted by another 'witch' subject, a play by Mengden, but it was 1866 before he was able to announce that he had 'begun to sketch out the witches'. Most of the actual composition was done in June, 1867, though the work is hardly ever played in this form. (The version usually performed, known as A Night on the Bare Mountain, is practically a composition by Rimsky-Korsakov based on Mussorgsky's material.) Mussorgsky was very proud of this work. 'I feel', he wrote, 'that "St. John's Night" is something new, and is bound to produce a favourable impression on intelligent musicians ... I have produced some individual trifles, but this is the first individual big thing I've done.'