SOLOMON (Pianoforte)
THE WIRELESS CHORUS
THE WIRELESS ORCHESTRA, conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
THIS work on which Elgar has exercised his skill as an orchestrator, a splendid specimen in Bach's most dignified and spacious manner, dates from the later portion of his time as Organist at Weimar (towards 1717), when he was making his reputation as the greatest organist of the day.
Chorus with Orchestra
Toward the Unknown Region Vaughan Williams
THOSE, probings of the mysteries of Life and Death, which so often occupied the mind of America's great poet, Walt Whitman , have always made a strong appeal to Ralph Vaughan Williams.
We find an early manifestation of this affinity between poet and composer in the choral work Towards the Unknown Region.
LISTENERS are by now fairly familiar with several of the works of Borodin (1834-1887), that curious combination of musician with Doctor of Medicine and Professor of Chemistry. His powerful Second Symphony was completed in 1877. It is in four Movements, of which we are to hear the Second and Third. The Second, the Scherzo, has persistent rhythms and plenty of gay orchestral colour. The Third Movement is of a quiet reflective type. A solo Horn's soft melody, at the beginning, is notable. This a solo Clarinet repeats, and after a good deal of intermediate matter a long, noble declamation of this tune, dying away, normally brings us without break to the final Movement. This, however, will not be played tonight.