Leader, Harold Fairhurst
Conductor, Richard Austin
Solo violin, Albert Sandier from the Pavilion, Bournemouth
Grieg's Peer Gynt music is one of the most perfect examples of theatre music, since it portrays with extraordinary pictorial vividness and suggests with great emotional expressiveness those dramatic climaxes and poetic moods of the play which seem to demand a musical background.
There are not many violin concertos that, apart from purely violinistic considerations, deserve to be called ' great' music-perhaps barely a dozen. Among these Mendelssohn's Concerto in E minor takes a very high place, for in addition to the beautiful and effective solo writing. the orchestral texture, light and graceful though it is, is intended to be symphonic in importance rather than a mere accompaniment to a brilliant violin solo. Each of the three movements is simple in design and lyrical ifi appeal.
4.7 Symphony No. 5, in C minor
Beethoven
1 Allegro con brio. 2 Andante con moto. 3 Allegro. 4 Presto