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Sung by Tatiana Makushina (Soprano)

The Spirit of Heaven
By the River Don
Yeremoushka's Cradle Song
Gathering Mushrooms

We know Modesto Moussorgsky (1839-1881) as one of the group of Russian composers called 'The Five' who, in the nineteenth century, with high patriotism and splendid determination, set Russian music on its feet, and for the first time in its history won recognition for Russia as a musical nation. Few of these men lived by music. Most of the group were state servants of some sort. For a time Moussorgsky was an officer in the guards. He threw up his commission and became a government servant in the lower ranks; poverty soon came into his ill-regulated life, and drink hastened his death at the early age of forty-two.

In the fifty or so songs he wrote, we often get the benefit of Moussorgsky's bold free individuality and amateur status; sometimes, indeed, we have in his work the happiest product of the inspired amateur.
He had an astonishing variety of styles; some of them he took ready made from predecessors, and some he hammered out for himself.

At one moment (as in that little masterpiece Gathering Mushrooms) he is cleverly combining a folk-song strain with the art-song manner; at another he is lyrical, in the manner of composers of other nations; now he is frankly sentimental and again realistically descriptive or declamatory.

Contributors

Soprano:
Tatiana Makushina

PEOPLE who say that journalism ruins a writer's
. style can never have read Mr. Nevinson. A veteran war-correspondent who has seen fighting in three Continents during the last thirty years, and one of Massingham's famous team on The Nation, his journalistic writing has always been distinguished, and such books as his autobiography, ' Changes and Chances,' are written in a really noble prose. He has always been a fearless and resourceful fighter for freedom, and his visit to Central Africa in 1904-5 resulted in a striking exposure of the trade in slaves.

Harold Williams (Baritone)
Angel Grande (Violin)
The Irwell Springs Band, Conducted by Harry Barlow

Band
March, 'Dawn of Freedom' - Lotter

Harold Williams
The Slighted Swain - Anon., arr. Lane Wilson
The Happy Lover - Anon., arr. Lane Wilson
The Pretty Creature - Storace, arr. Lane Wilson

Band
Overture to 'Semiramis' - Rossini

10.15 Angel Grande
Oriental - Cui
Scherzo Tarantella - Wieniawski

Band
Cornet Duet, 'Dot and Carrie' (Soloists, C. Jones and H. Sutcliffe) - White

10.30 Harold Williams
In Summertime on Bredon - Peel
When lights go rolling round the sky - Ireland
BAND Selection from 'The Desert Song' - Romberg

Angel Grande
Jota - De Falla
Montanesa - Nin Kochanski
Zortzico - Sarasate

Band
Euphonium Solo, 'The Capulets' - arr. H. Barlow

5XX Daventry

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