The Legend of St. Elizabeth
Part 2 with Rena Edwards (soprano) Emerentia Scheepers (soprano)
Kathleen Joyce (contralto) (Continued in next column)
Goldsmiths Choral Union
(Conductor. Frederick Haggis )
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader. Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Landgravine Sophie.
Dialogue between the Landgravine Sophie and the Seneschal Elizabeth's grief
Elizabeth's expulsion from the Wartburg
Storm of thunder and lightning
Elizabeth
Prayer
Dream of her childhood's home
Chorus of the poor: Charitable deeds of Elizabeth
Elizabeth's death
Chorus of angels
Solemn Interment of Elizabeth
Orchestral Interlude
Emperor Friedrich II of Hohenstauffen Mourning Chorus of the poor and of the people generally
Procession of Crusaders
Church choristers: Hungarian and German bishops
Last of twelve programmes of Liszt's music, devised by Humphrey Searle Cosmopolitan though he was, Liszt had a strong feeling for his native land of Hungary, and the story of Elizabeth, the patron saint of that country, made a special appeal to him. His oratorio was first performed, under his direction, at Budapest in 1865. Two years later it was given at the Wartburg on the occasion of the eight-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the castle. It was in the castle, in 1855, that Liszt saw the frescoes, depicting scenes in the life of the Saint, that provided the initial inspiration for the oratorio. Harold Rutland