and the Park Lane Hotel Orchestra From the Park Lane Hotel
LEONARD Gowincs (Tenor) THE scene of Goring Thomas' Esmerelda is laid in fifteenth-century Paris. This song describes tho beauty of Esmerelda :— '0 vision entrancing, 0 lovely and light, My heart at thy dancing Grows faint for delightFair-so fair-yet so poor and lowly, Dear—so dear-to this heart of mine."
FOR a long time Mendelssohn had
(as he put it) a Violin Concerto ' swimming about in his head in a shapeless condition.'
At last, after six years, it crystallized, and in making its first appearance in public it became an instantaneous success.
The SECOND MOVEMENT (Moving gently), is a sort of exalted ' Song without Words.'
Following on the Second Movement there is a passage of meditation and indecision for Strings (led by the Soloist), then, with a preliminary fanfare, we are phmged into the exuberant, dancing Finale.
COMPOSER, pianist, conductor—all these was
Liszt. But it is as a virtuoso pianist and composer that he is remembered. It is said that when ho had played at concerts, young ladies used to fight round the piano to gain possession oi wires which he had broken, and have them made into bracelets!
His Hungarian Rhapsodies in particular amazed people with their brilliance and force. Liszt founded these Hungarian Rhapsodies on the folk-tunes of his native Hungary, and tried to express in them the gloom, vigour and excitability of the national temperament.