Roger Nichols introduces a stage production he devised for last year's Exeter Festival, which included the first revival of the young Poulenc's 1921 comic music-theatre piece Le Gendarme incompris. MARK CURTIS (tenor)
RICHARD LLOYD MORGAN (baritone) With DANIEL MITCHELL and DEBRA ROBINSON
NASH ENSEMBLE conducted by LIONEL FRIEND
Stravinsky L'Histoire du soldat
5.03* Roger Nichols on how he tracked down and revised Le Gendarme incompris.
5.10* Poulenc Le Gendarme incompris (first UK broadcast) (Given in June 1987 at the Northcott Theatre, Exeter, as part of the Exeter Festival in association with the Post Office) BBC Bristol