Relayed from the New Pavilion, Bournemouth
(No. XXIX of the Thirty-fourth Winter Series)
The Bournemouth Municipal Augmented Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Dan Godfrey (First Performance)

For this new work the composer has furnished the following explanation:
'In this Fugue there are two contrasting themes-the main theme with its counter subject and a second theme which is used in all the episodes. At the beginning of the work each group of strings announces the main theme and its counter subject in turn. After this, the second theme is given out by the first viola, taken up by the first violin and then all the second violins. Tho main theme now starts a series of adventures, and at length reaches a climax, shedding its counter subject in doing so. It is just subsiding in the double basses when the second theme, which has kept calm and unchanged all this time, superimposes itself by means of the violins and violas in octaves and thus has the last word. After this, the main theme reappears in chastened mood, there is a short coda, and the work is at an end.'
(Soloist, Isidor Goodman)