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BBC OPERA ORCHESTRA

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

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(Leader, John Sharpe )
BBC Opera Chorus
(Trained by Alan G. Melville )
Conductor, Stanford Robinson
Gerald Davies (tenor)
Norman Lumsden (bass)
Arthur Sandford (piano)
Music of Smetana
From The Bartered Bride:
Opening Chorus (Act 1, Scene 1)
Recit. and duet: I know a maiden
(Act 2. Scene 4)
Recit. and Aria: Why should he think he could ever part me from Marenka? (Act 2. Scene 5) Polka (Act 1, Scene 5)
Sextet: Stay awhile (Act 3. Scene 5) Dance of the Clowns (Act 3)
Piano Solo: The Goose Girl
From The Two Widows:
Polka
Entr'acte before Act 2
Piano Solo: By the Seashore Vltava (Ma Vlast)
Programme devised by Harold Neden

Contributors

Leader:
John Sharpe
Conductor:
Alan G. Melville
Conductor:
Stanford Robinson
Tenor:
Gerald Davies
Bass:
Norman Lumsden
Piano:
Arthur Sandford
Unknown:
Harold Neden
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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