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THE WIRELESS CHORUS
(Section A)
THE B.B.C. ORCHESTRA
(Section D)
(Lead by MARIE WILSON )
Conducted by CYRIL DALMAINE
CHORUS and ORCHESTRA
A Song of Destiny (Op. 54)
(From the German text of.Friedrich Holderlin )
The Schiksahlied (Song of Destiny) is, in general opinion, the first of all Brahms' choral works. It is a setting of a pessimistic, but not undignified, poem by an unhappy German poet, which although it contrasts the joys of immortaiity with the sorrows of this life, ends, even so, on a note of hopelessness. Brahms, with a saner outlook on life, contrives to temper this pessimism with a serenity and beauty that softens the poet's gloom and disputes his conclusion.
Orchestra
Movements from Serenade No. 1 in D (Op. 11)
Allegro molto ; Minuetto I; Minuetto II ; Scherzo : Allegro; Rondo : Allegro
This Serenade, one of the two he wrote early in his career, is the first of his published works for full orchestra. It is built up in the traditional form used by Mozart and others of his predecessors, and contains the two delicate and exquisite Minuets which so often appear as an item by themselves in concert programmes.
DOUBLE CHORUS (Unaccompanied)
Festival and commemoration Sentences (Op. 109)
This Festival piece, written in eight parts for unaccompanied voices, shows Brahms with the resources of modern harmonies achieving as fine an effect of rich polyphony as did any of the great contrapuntal masters.
CHORUS and ORCHESTRA
Academic Festival Overture (Op. 80)
Brahms in 1880 was made Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Breslau. It was necessary that he should submit a thesis in the form of a composition. So Brahms weaved a number of jolly student-songs into a concert overture and made of it an amusing piece of pure comedy.