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This week, Susan Sharpe 's selection features two leading lights of British music this century. In 1967 Benjamin Britten conducted the English Chamber
Orchestra in a performance of Bach's St John Passion, with Peter Pears as the Evangelist. And in 1980 Michael Tippett 's Triple
Concerto received its world premiere, with Gyorgy Pauk (violin), Nobuko Imai (viola), Ralph Kirshbaum (cello), and the London Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Colin Davis.
Producer Susan Kenyon
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Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Peter Pears
Unknown:
Michael Tippett
Violin:
Gyorgy Pauk
Violin:
Nobuko Imai
Cello:
Ralph Kirshbaum
Conductor:
Colin Davis.
Producer:
Susan Kenyon
Source: Radio Times

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