Relayed from the National Museum of Wales.

National Orchestra of Wales
Violins, Albert Voorsanger and Frank Thomas
Violoncello, Ronald Harding

Handel's Concerto has four Movements - a slow, stately one; a short, quiet one in which the instruments imitate each other a good deal; then a longer, gently swinging Movement, and a brisk, cheery Finale.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is so well known that reference need only be made to the troubled character of the First Movement, making powerful use of that imperious, gruff opening summons of four notes; the rich, leisurely Variations of the Second Movement; the grim Scherzo, which leads to the blaze of the Last Movement (in which the Scherzo's ghost peeps in for a moment).

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