Quintet
Popular Songs; On The Mountain Top; Wind Sprites; Dance of the Icicles - Russell
Harp Quintet
Three old French Dances
Piece in the style of a Habanera - Ravel
Spirit of Youth - Bridgewater
Quintet
Caprice - Signorelli
Le Vase Brise (The Broken Vase) - John Orange
Canzonetta - Tchaikovsky
Tambourin chinois (Chinese Tambourine) - Kreisler
How much Kreisler has done to enrich the repertoire of the modern solo violinist must be abundantly clear to listeners, from the frequency with which his name appears as a composer or arranger of violin pieces. His own career has been in many ways an astonishing one. He was only seven when he made his first concert appearance, and in the same year entered the Vienna Conservatoire, in spite of the rule that pupils must be at least fourteen years old on admission. He was the youngest pupil that ever studied there, and certainly the youngest that ever won the Gold Medal for violin playing. He was then only ten. Two years later he achieved another amazing success by winning the first Prix de Rome of the Paris Conservatoire, in competition with forty others, not one of whom was less than twenty years of age.
After some successful concert tours in Europe and America, he came back to Vienna and gave up music altogether for a time. He took a course in medicine, studied painting both in Paris and in Rome, and finally became a cavalry officer. During his army service, he laid his violin entirely aside, developing, no doubt, that splendid physique which enables him to withstand so well the arduous life of a virtuoso. Taking up his music once more, he soon made himself one of the foremost concert players in the world, and though his career was again interrupted by army service during the War, when he was wounded, he is still, probably, the most popular solo violinist of today.

Harp Quintet
A Song of the East - Scott
Les Marionettes (L'Almanach des Images) - Grovlez
Down in the Forest - Landon Ronald
Rigaudon (Ballet de Cour) - Pierne
Gigue - Lully
(All arrangements by Leslie Bridgewater)