A programme specially devised for
Michaelmas by R. Ellis Roberts
With music specially written by Benjamin Britten
Production by Robin Whitworth with Robert Speaight
Felix Aylmer
Leo Genn
Singers Sophie Wyss
Peter Pears
The BBC Chorus (Section B)
The BBC Orchestra (Section C)
Conducted by Trevor Harvey
From the Scriptures, from old authors, from poets of yesterday and today have been chosen a few of the passages in which they profess that behind the universe are Powers unseen, whose work is the adoration of God, and, at His bidding, the service of Man. To English people, their names, old in tradition, are known mainly from the Bible and from John Milton 's ' Paradise Lost '. This is the Festival of Archangels and Angels-from whom Man has learnt the song of Adoration.
See the article by R. Ellis Roberts , on page 17