ORCHESTRA, conducted by PAUL RIMMER
THE STATION REPERTORY
CHORUS, conducted by JOSEPH LEWIS
(The Queen of Love and Sorrow)
Written by IDA M. DOWNING
Played by THE STATION PLAYERS
Characters :
AN ante-room in Holyrood
Palace, Edinburgh; soft music is heard from below; Kizzio is playing and singing to the Queen, who is still in her bed-chamber. Tho two maids of honour are arranging the room and talking ; Mary Beaton hums as she crosses to the window and opens it.
THE STATION ORCHESTRA, conducted by JOSEPH LEWIS
THE Symphony gets its name from one chord in the Slow MOVEMENT. This Movement, a gently but steadily progressing Air with Variations, begins very softly on Strings alone. Then, at the sixteenth bar, comes a crash from
' the whole Orchestra—the ' surprise '
The LAST MOVEMENT is a quick, jolly one.
Noto the many instances of Haydn's playful use of alternating Wind and String passages.