Heddle Nash (Tenor)
David McCallum (Violin)
The Wireless Orchestra
Conducted by John Ansell

The Rhapsody, founded on tunes which may well be actual Breton folk songs, is in two distinct movements, of which the second undergoes a good many changes of speed and rhythm. The first begins in an easy-going pastoral way with a tune for one clarinet alone, a happy, ambling tune. Other instruments join until the whole orchestra is busily engaged, but the first tune really forms the basis of the whole movement. The second begins very simply with a tune on the strings and from it the whole of the first section is built up; Then there is a brief return to the speed and something of the melody of the first movement, and it and the simple tune from the beginning of the second alternate one with the other for a time. The end ii formed by the pastoral tune from the beginning ; it fades away very softly at the close.