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ORCHESTRAL
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Orche$tra of 49 artiet6.
bon. Conductor :
PROF. G. W. L. MARSHALL-HALL.
`bon. VocalOt :
MADAME ELISE WIEDERMANN.
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Overture " Coriolan " L. van Beethoven.
Thanks to Plutarch's stirring " Life,' and Shakespeare's yet more stirring drama, everyone can know how that mighty warrior Caius Marcius, surnamed Coriolanus, delivered Rome repeatedly from the greedy grasp of her foes ; and how that ; having done so, he was shamefully handled by the ungrateful people he had saved, spurred on as they were by a few ignorant and envious mob orators ; how that he was banished the city, and returned, breathing vengeance, with a vast and invincible army ; how that on the eve of the fulfilment of his just wrath his wife and little son and mother penetrated to the hostile camp, and after long entreaty prevailed on him to withdraw his troops, conscious as he was that this course was tantamount to signing his own death-warrant, as indeed events subsequently proved. It is this terrible crisis with which Beethoven has dealt in the present powerful tragic overture ; how truthfully will be felt by those who can sympathise with the contending passions which must have torn the warrior's heart during the terrible interview.
%tubr on "Uristan nub 3sol0e"
" Im TreilThaus " R. Wagner.
MADAME ELISE WIEDERMANN.
Hoch gewiilbte Blittterkronen, Wohl, ich weiss es, artne Pllanze : Baldachine von Smaragd, Geschicke theilen wir, Kinder ihr aus fernen Zonen, Ob nmstrahlt von Licht und Glance, Saget mir warum ihr klagt ? Unsre Heimat ist nicht tiler I Schweigend neiget ihr die Zweige,
Malet Zeichen in die Luft, Und der Leiden stummer Zeuge, Steiget aufwiirts siisser Duft.
Weit in sehnendem Verlangen, Breitet ihr die Arme aus, Und umschlinget, wahnbefangen Ode Leere nichtgen Graus.
Concerto for tholonceflo
Op. 33, in A Minor C. Saint-Saens.
HERR LOUIS HATTENBACH.
Ztubv on "Uristan un0 joolbe"
" Traurne " R. Wagner.
MADAME ELISE WIEDERMANN.
Halten meinen Sinn umfangen,
Sag', welch wunderbare Tratime Traume, wie wenn Frithlingesonne Aus dem Schnee die Bit:lawn kiisst, Dass sie nicht wie leere Schifume Dass zu nie geaheter Wonne sind in odes Nichts vergangen ? Sie der neue Tag begrlisst, Trfiume, die in jeder Stunde, Dass sie wachsen, dass sie bliihen Jedena Tage schtiner blith'n, Tratimend,spenden ihren Duft Und mit direr Hitnmelskunde Sanft an deiner Brust vet glithen,
Und darn sinken in die'Gruft.
Selig durch's Gemiithe ziehn ? Tedume, die wie hehre Strahlen In die Seele sich versenken, Dort ein ewig Bild zu malen All-vergessen, Eingedenken!
" cZiegtrie0 30pII" R. Wagner.
This remarkable work must be reckoned among Wagner's masterpieces. The tenderness which breathes through every bar has never been surpassed. Originally written to celebrate the first anniversary of the birthday of his son Siegfried, it was performed as a surprise for Madame Wagner, on the staircase of Wagner's house in Switzerland, at an early hour of the morning, by a select hand of musicians. Wagner himself stole front his bed to wield the baton, and Hans Richter played the trumpet part.
It is not without emotion that in this exquisite tone-poem one sees the world-reviled, fortune-battered, fate-defying Richard Wagner at the quiet bedside where sleep the woman he loves and her babe. What a feeling there is of peace, hope, consolation.
Hear that constantly reiterated sigh of the violins and 'celli—what an intoxicating tender- ness! To this much-suffering, much-enduring man, how healing a moment is vouch- safed! The harsh, evil-tongued world is vanished from his ken ; forgotten the bitter life-long fight of one against many. He stands there, a father, and as he looks down upon the innocent sweetness of the world. ignorant little one, what possibilities, what fears, what hopes throng through his mind. Unconsciously in his yearning pate rnal pride,the themes associated with the heroic career of his great "Siegfried " fill his heart with hope prophetic, and he dimly traces out a wondrous world-healing future for his year-old son.
So stands he, rapt in wondrous reverie, dreaming things immortal, "lovely, loving, and beloved I "
The Idyll is prefixed by the following beautiful stanzas addressed to Madame Wagner :—
der meinem Werk die Werdestiitte fand,
Es war Dein opfermuthig hehrer Wille, Fiir ihn und Dich durft' ich in Tfinen danken,—
wie glib' es Liebesthaten hold'ren Lohn ? von Dir geweiht zu weltentrlickter Stille,
Sie hegten wir in uns'res Heimes Schranken, wo nun es wuchs und kriiftig uns erstand,
die Heldenwelt uns zaubernd zum Idylle, d'e stifle Freude, die hier ward Z1.1111 Ton.
uraltes Fern no trautem Heimathland. Die sich uns treu erwiesen ohne Wanken, Erscholl ein Ruf da froh in meine Weisen : so Siegfried hold, wie freundlich uns'rem,
" ein Sohn ist da "—der musste Siegfried Sohn,
heissen. mit Deiner Huld sei ihnen jetzt erschlossen,
was sonst als tiinend Gluck wir still genossen
INTaRILTCL OP Teri
orana vinpbotiv ••• No. 7, in A Major ... L. van Beethoven.
This Symphony is one of the most beautiful and genial of Beethoven's works. Its romantic, lyrical character makes itself at : once felt. Wagner has called this work a great " World Dance," in which all the joys, sorrows, and passions of humanity succeed one another in ever-changing train. Especially should the wonder-breathing middle section of the third movement be enjoyed, and the wild, mad bacchanalian whirl with which the whole concludes.
Und wie froh die Sonne scheidet Von des Tages leerem Schein, Millet der, der wahrhaft leidet, Sich in Schweigens Dunkel ein.
Stille wird's—ein satiselnd Weben Millet bang den dunklen Raum : Schwere Tropfen ich schweben An der Bliitter grlinem Saum.
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