Leader, W. H. Reed
Conductor, Julian Clifford
Orrea Pernel (violin)

This is one of five concertos Mozart wrote in 1775. Each, like the older Vivaldi type of violin concerto, consists of three movements, but in almost every other respect Mozart advanced far beyond his predecessors in this field. The opening tuttis with their quite symphonic statements of material, for instance, sounded a new note.
Variations on a theme of Haydn (Chorale St. Antonii) Brahms

In November, 1870, Brahms's friend, C.F. Pohl, author of the great standard biography of Haydn, showed him a curious and little-known work by the eighteenth-century master: a Feldpartita in B flat written in the 1780's for Prince Esterhazy's military band. It is scored for two oboes, two horns, three bassoons, and serpent. Brahms was immediately impressed by the work ; he copied into a note-book the second movement, entitled 'Chorale St. Antonii'. But the variations by which he made that Chorale one of the world's best-known melodies were not written till the summer of 1873.