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Mendelssohn in England

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'I don't know how it is. but I am seized with the desire to be off... I long for the steamer and for the perfume of British coal... I have a long-cherished plan of introducing my wife to the country of my predilection.'

A memoir in words and music of the composer Mendelssohn's visits to England between 1829 and 1847.

Ian Holm as Felix Mendelssohn with Paul Daneman as the Narrator and Kathleen Helme, Rosalind Shanks, Marjorie Westbury, John Baddeley, Peter Pratt and Michael Spice
The programme compiled from contemporary sources by Joanna Richardson

Contributors

Compiled by:
Joanna Richardson
Producer:
John Powell
Felix Mendelssohn:
Ian Holm
Narrator:
Paul Daneman
[Actress]:
Kathleen Helme
[Actress]:
Rosalind Shanks
[Actress]:
Marjorie Westbury
[Actor]:
John Baddeley
[Actor]:
Peter Pratt
[Actor]:
Michael Spice
Source: Radio Times

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