19:30

Egmont

Sun 13^th Sep 1970, 19:30 on BBC Radio 3

The tragedy written in 1788 by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE with overture and incidental music by LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN English version by MICHAEL HAMBURGER, adapted for radio by JOHN POWELL with Paul Daneman as Egmont and Stephen Murray
Mary Morris , Deborah Stanford David Buck , Gary Bond
John Justin , and Gary Watson The action of the play takes place in Brussels and begins in the year 1568
The Netherlanders:
GWENYTH ANNEAR (soprano) BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conductor JAMES LOUGHRAN
Produced by JOHN POWELL Part 1

Contributors

Unknown:: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music By:: Ludwig van Beethoven
Unknown:: John Powell
Unknown:: Paul Daneman
Unknown:: Stephen Murray
Unknown:: Mary Morris
Unknown:: Deborah Stanford
Unknown:: David Buck
Unknown:: Gary Bond
Unknown:: John Justin
Unknown:: Gary Watson
Conductor:: James Loughran
Produced By:: John Powell
Count Egmont,Prince of Gavre:: Paul Daneman
Richard, his secretary:: John Rye
William, Prince of Orange:: Gary Watson
Clara, Egmont's mistress:: Deborah Stanford
Clara's mother:: Kathleen Helme
Brackenburg, a citizen's son:: Gary Bond
Soest, a grocer:: Nigel Lambert
Jetter, a tailor:: Geoffrey Collins
Buyck, a soldier under Egmont:: Peter Pratt
Jakob, a carpenter:: Sean Barrett
Groot a soapboiler:: Brian Haines
Old Ruysum:: Malcolm Hayes
Vansen, a clerk:: Michael Deacon
A citizen:: Hilda Kriseman
The Spaniards: Margaret of Parma, daughter of Charles V and Regent of the Netherlands:: Mary Morris
Machiavelli, her secretary:: John Justin
The Duke of Alba:: Stephen Murray
Ferdinand, his son:: David Buck
Don da Silva, in Alba's service:: John Pullen
Captain Gomez, in Aiba's service:: Leonard Fenton

Source: Radio Times

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