Peter Pears (tenor)
John Francis (flute)
Joy Boughton (oboe)
Mewton-Wood and Noel Lee (two pianos)
William Bradshaw and James Blades (percussion)
Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
(Leader, Olive Zorian )
Conducted by Imogen Holst and Benjamin Britten
Variations on an Elizabethan Theme by 20th-century English composers
(first performance)
The works in this concert are all to be performed at the 1953 Aldeburgh Festival. On page 27 Harold Rutland writes about the Variations on an Elizabethan Theme, by Lennox Berkeley, Benjamin Britten, Arthur Oldham, Humphrey Searle, Michael Titppett, and William Walton. A concert of chamber music from Aldeburgh: June 23.