Leader, BERTRAM LEWIS
Conducted by RICHARD AUSTIN and W. H. REED
Solo pianoforte, MARK HAMBOURG
Relayed from
The Pavilion, Bournemouth
Schubert's song ' The Wanderer ' was written in 1816, when the composer was nineteen years of age. In 1822 Schubert took the second melody (beginning at the words ' The Sun himself shines wan and cold ') and used it as the principal theme for his ' Wanderer Fantasia ' for piano solo. In 1856 Liszt arranged the Fantasia for piano and orchestra, and he stated in a letter that ' the whole of the conclusion of the C major Fantasia I have rewritten in modern pianoforte form, and I natter myself that Schubert would not be displeased with it.' Throughout Liszt has, of course, added a certain amount of his own material and embellishments.