Leader, PHILIP WHITEWAY
Conducted by PETER MONTGOMERY
EGLANTINE LADIES' TRIO
MARGARET HUXLEY (violin)
PHILIP WHITEWAY (violin)
In Delius's A Village Romeo and Juliet Sali and Vredi are the ' Romeo and Juliet' who have suffered in their love for each other from the bitter enmity of their parents. They meet again after a cruel separation, and determine to have one day of pleasure together. They go to a neighbouring fair, happy in each other's company; there they are recognised and worried by importunate questions. Anxious to be wholly alone, they leave the fair and walk to the Paradise Garden, which is an inn, formerly the manor house of a ruined country estate. The lovely music describes their walk, idyllic, but saturated with a sense of impending tragedy. (MARGARET HUXLEY and PHILIP WHITEWAY)