(in co-operation with The Belfast
Corporation)
Relayed from The Ulster Hall
PETER DAWSON
THE B B C NORTHERN IRELAND
ORCHESTRA
Leader, PHILIP WHITEWAY
Conducted by PETER MONTGOMERY (Soloist, PETER DAWSON> )
According to an old legend, the spirits of the men of the Irish Brigade who were killed on the field of Fontenoy took the form of wild geese when darkness fell and flew home to Ireland. That is the theme which Sir Hamilton Harty has set forth in this picturesque orchestral piece, making use of Irish idioms, if not actual Irish tunes.
There is a slow and rather plaintive
Introduction, and then two brisk Irish tunes played by flutes. A quiet tune on the oboe comes next, with a martial strain in the accompaniment, although the mutter of coming battle can still be heard.
A call on trumpets brings in the Irish tunes once more, now in a more stirring vein, and the tone poem comes to an end with a theme which depicts the flight of the wild geese after the battle.
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