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Elgar: The Starlight Express

BBC Radio 3
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Written for a play which folded after four weeks' run, Elgar's highly acclaimed incidental music was his largest work for the stage. In this, the first complete recording, Vernon Handley conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra with soloists Valerie Masterson and Derek Hammond-Stroud.

Act I and Act II (first part)

Contributors

Musicians:
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Vernon Handley
Soloist:
Valerie Masterson
Soloist:
Derek Hammond-Stroud
Source: Radio Times

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