Bach, arr Simpson Contrapuncti 5-7 (The Art of Fugue)
Robert Simpson String Quartet No 2 (1953)
6.35* Interval Reading
6.40* Concert, Part 2
Beethoven String Quartet in A minor, Op 132 BBC Birmingham by DAVID BUCK A three-part version of the English mystery plays, with Denis Quilley as God John Rowe as Jesus
Peter Jeffrey as Lucifer Michael Deacon as Caiaphas
Anthony Jackson as Peter Nigel Stock as Pilate Anna Massey as Procula Annette Crosbie as Mary Magdalen
John Rye as Gabriel Timothy West as The Prologue 3: Redemption
In which Jesus is tried; Procula distracts Pilate; Barabbas is freed; Jesus is crucified; the Resurrection; the damned are released from Hell; Jesus returns to God's right hand Annas .LEONARD FENTON First witness/Cleophas
JOHN BOTT
Second witness/Good thief
DAVID BUCK
MalCUS MICHAEL SPICE First temple guard
DANNY SCHILLER
Second temple guard
TREVOR COOPER
Third temple guard/Bad thief JOHN BULL
Fourth temple guard/
Thomas ..GORDON REID
Damsel/Woman/Child
ELIZABETH RIDER
Pilate's servant/Longeus
MARTIN FRIEND
Herod Antiphas
ROGER HAMMOND
Sergeant JOHN HOLLIS First Roman soldier
ERIC ALLAN
Second Roman soldier
NIGEL ANTHONY
Third Roman soldier
JOHN CHURCH
Barabbas .TREVOR COOPER John .DAVID TIMSON Mary SUE JONES-DAVIES Mary Cleophas/Old Eve
MARGOT BOYD
Simon of Cyrene/Michael
DENYS HAWTHORNE
Joseph of Arimathaea
LEONARD FENTON
John the Baptist
NIGEL ANTHONY
Woman in Hell.EVA STUART LukeANDREW BRANCH Woman .EVE KARPF Musical composition JOHN BULL , DANNY SCHILLER and DAVID TIMSON . Directed by MARTIN JENKINS