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Summertime on Bredon

on BBC Radio 3

A second chance to hear the BBC's prize-winning portrait of Ralph Vaughan Williams devised for an international competition for music programmes sponsored by Hungarian Radio last autumn. The programme looks at some of the influences that shaped Vaughan Williams into one of England's greatest composers.
Narrators GABRIEL WOOLF, PATRICIA HUGHES, ROBIN HOLMES
The music, by Vaughan Williams, Parry, Elgar and Holst, is performed by IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
With the NASH ENSEMBLE, FELICITY PALMER (soprano) and HUGH BEAN (violin), ORIEL SUTHERLAND (contralto) and ROGER VIGNOLES (piano)
ST MARGARET'S WESTMINSTER SINGERS, conductor RICHARD HICKOX
Organist ALASTAIR ROSS
Technical presentation JOHN RUSHBY-SMITH
Written and produced by ELAINE PADMORE

Contributors

Music By:
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Narrator:
Gabriel Woolf
Narrator:
Patricia Hughes
Narrator:
Robin Holmes
Tenor:
Ian Partridge
Contralto:
Oriel Sutherland
Piano:
Roger Vignoles
Choir:
St Margaret's Westminster Singers
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Organist:
Alastair Ross
Produced By:
Elaine Padmore

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