(Section C)
Led by Laurance Turner
Conducted by JULIAN CLIFFORD
This favourite symphony shows Haydn at his gayest. It overflows with good spirits-clear, simple music in no need of words to commend it. It is the seventh of a set of twelve composed for the Paris Concert spirituel in 1787. Schonberg's ' Music to accompany a film scene ', written in 1930, is scored for a fairly small orchestra, with a generous proportion of percussion. The musical texture is simpler than usual with Schonberg, and the nature of the ' film scene ' is indicated by the sub-title : ' Threatening danger, fear, catastrophe'.
This Serenade, one of the two Brahms wrote early in his career, is the first of his published works for full orchestra. It is in the traditional form used by Mozart and his other predecessors, and contains the two delicate and exquisite Minuets that so often appear as separate items in concert programmes.