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Mendelssohn's ' ELIJAH '

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on BBC Home Service Basic

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Oratorio with words taken from the Old Testament. Noel Eadie (soprano) ; Gladys Ripley (contralto) ; Peter Pears (tenor) ; Roy Henderson (baritone). Goldsmiths' Choral Union. London Symphony Orchestra (leader, George Stratton ) : conductor, Frederick Haggis. From the Royal Albert Hall , London. Part 1
3.35 app. Interval, during which Steuart Wilson talks about Mendelssohn's ' Elijah '

Contributors

Contralto:
Gladys Ripley
Tenor:
Peter Pears
Tenor:
Roy Henderson
Leader:
George Stratton
Unknown:
Frederick Haggis.
Unknown:
Albert Hall
Talks:
Steuart Wilson
Source: Radio Times

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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