Joseph Slater (flute) ; Jean Pougnet
(violin); Rebecca Clarke (viola)
ANGUS MORRISON (pianoforte)
HERTA GLUCKMANN (contralto)
This Serenade is Opus 25 .in the list of Beethoven's compositions, and was published in 1802, that is in Beethoven's early Vienna days. A year later it was revised by the composer and issued as a work for pianoforte and flute or violin. The reason for this is not very clear, but, no doubt, it was to fulfil a commission. It is light-hearted in character, and was written to fulfil the same purpose as the Serenades of Mozart and the eighteenth century-merely to give entertainment. This is the first published example of the many chamber music works composed by Arnold Bax. It dates from 1906, and its publication was through that useful and enterprising instrument of the British ' Renaissance then in process of flowering, the Avison Edition'. The music, though scarely representative of the later Bax, is, on its merits, a work of interest.