Marjorie Hayward (violin)
The Wireless Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, S. Kneale Kelley)
Conducted by Sir Henry J. Wood
Concerto Grosso, No. 6 in G Minor...Handel
Symphony in D, No. 31 (K. 297)...Mozart

The twelve Concerti Grossi were composed in 1739; the Oratorios "Saul" and "Israel in Egypt" appeared in the same year, Handel's fifty-fourth. He had scarcely recovered from an attack of paralysis which sent him, the year before, in search of health to Aix la Chapelle, but there is no hint in the bright freshness of these Concerti of any misfortune nor despondency.

With the seventh as solo exception, they are written for three solo instruments, accompanied by strings and basso continuo, our English 'thorough Bass'. In Handel's day that was entrusted to a cembalo, the delicate-toned ancestor of the pianoforte, and when the works were performed under Handel's own direction, he generally conducted and played that part himself at the same time.

The accompaniment here is the same as in Handel's Concerti Grossi. There are three movements, the first and last in brisk measure and with a real sense of happiness, the middle movement being in slow time and solemn mood.

16.08 Marjorie Hayward and Orchestra
Concerto for Violin and Strings, No. 2 in E...Bach

16.30 Orchestra
Siegfried Idyll...Wagner
Two Aubades...Lalo