Conductor, E. GODFREY BROWN
The first number of the second suite of Grieg's famous incidental music represents Ingrid's sorrow, interspersed with occasional outbursts of anger, at Peer Gynt's monstrous treatment. It will be remembered that on her wedding morning, before the eyes of the guests, Peer abducted the lady and ' carrying her under his arm like a pig ' took her into the mountains and deserted her the next morning. The second number depicts the dancing of Anitra's troupe of Arabian girls before Peer. The third number vividly paints a storm at sea and the wreck of the ship on which Peer is travelling home. In the fourth number Solveig, Peer's betrothed, sits spinning outside a hut in a Norwegian forest ; thinking of him she sings and expresses her intention of waiting, however long he may be.
The composer says of his Mock Morris : ' No folk music tune-stuffs at all used herein. The rhythmic cast of the piece is Morris-like, but neither the build of the tunes, nor the general lay-out of the forms, keeps to the Morris dance shape.'
' Shepherd's Hey ', or ' British Folk
Music Setting ', as Grainger calls it, is built on four variants of an old Morris Dance collected by Cecil Sharp. The Hey was a popular country dance in Elizabethan times, probably not unlike a reel in its vigour and energy.
' Moonwitched a fairy play by Annie M. STONELEY , with music by E. A. A. STONELEY
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Conductor, E. GODFREY BROWN
A. V . FROGGATT (baritone)
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FLORENCE MARKS
GEORGE BEGGS and CLIFTON HELLIWELL
