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Led by Laurance Turner
Conducted by Constant Lambert
Jean Pougnet (violin) ORCHESTRA
Honegger's ' Summer Pastoral' is a quiet little nature impression, headed by a poetical quotation: ' I have embraced the summer dawn.' It is scored for a small orchestra, consisting of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, and strings. JEAN POUGNET AND ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA
JEAN POUGNET AND ORCHESTRA Romance (Album Leaf) Wagner, arr. Wilhelmj ORCHESTRA Overture, A May Night Rimsky-Korsakov Gogol's collection of short stories, ' Evenings on a farm near Dikanka ', has been a fruitful source of inspiration to Russian opera composers. Mussorgsky's Fair at Sorochintsy, Tchaikovsky's Vakula the Smith, Rimsky-Korsakov's A May Night and Christmas Eve-all these works are based on Gogot's delightful, humorous-fantastic tales of village life in the Ukraine. ' A May Night' had been a favourite tale of Rimsky-Korsakov's from childhood ; he read it with his lady-love on the day he proposed to her ; and it was his wife who finally persuaded him to make an opera of it. The opera (written in 1878) was Korsakov's second and, as listeners will gather from the overture, is one of his most tuneful and lyrical compositions, by no means depending on orchestral colour for its effect.
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