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Nikos Skalkottas

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

(1904-49)
In this final programme, works from the prolific Athens years (1935-49) including The Spell of May, in which Skalkottas mixes popular and atonal styles to symbolise the interplay of reality with the supernatural. Concertino (1935) ALFONS AND
ALOIS KONTARSKY (two pianos) SOUTH WEST GERMAN RSO/ ERNEST BOUR
(South West German Radio recording)
Fig Tree; Song of the Loom (16 songs: 1941)
MAUREEN LEHANE (mezzo) WILFRED PARRY (piano) (R) Little Suite No 2 (1949)
MANOUG PARIKIAN (violin) ERNEST LUSH (piano) (R) Incidental music to The Spell of May
(spoken roles)
CHARLOTTE LEHMANN (sop) SOUTH WEST GERMAN RSO/ ERNEST BOUR
(South West German Radio recording)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alois Kontarsky
Unknown:
Ernest Bour
Unknown:
Maureen Lehane
Piano:
Wilfred Parry
Unknown:
Ernest Bour
Old woman:
Isolde Brauner
Thodoris, her grandson:
Heidi Berndt
Source: Radio Times

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