Relayed from The Queen's Hall,
London
(Sole Lessees, Messrs. Chappell and Co., LlJ.)
Beethoven Concert
STILES-ALLEN (soprano)
SOLOMON (pianoforte)
THE B.B.C. SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
(Principal violin, CHARLES WOODHOUSE)
Conducted by Sir HENRY WOOD
Part I
The overture to Coriolan, which opens tonight's Beethoven programme has not, as one would at first imagine, anything to do with Shakespeare's play. The author of the drama for which Beethoven wrote the overture was Heinrich Collin ,"a contemporary dramatist. It is called an overture, but in point of fact, it is far more of a symphonic poem, held to be the first of ics kind. There is no doubt that it was the forerunner of the famous set of symphonic poems written by Liszt.
Beethoven has drawn upon Plutarch's portrait of Coriolanus, and there was much in the character of this Roman to appeal to a man like Beethoven, whose forthright, independent, strong-willed nature was somewhat similar. In the music Beethoven has aimed at two things, to render musically the character of his hero, and to picture the incident of the famous meeting between Coriolanus, his mother, and his wife.
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