Portia Wind Ensemble: Mary Ryan (flute) Patricia Lyndon (flute and piccolo) Mary Murdoch (oboe) Rosemary Wells (oboe and cor anglais) Thea King (clarinet) Daphne Down (clarinet and bass clarinet) Valerie Smith (horn)
Rosamond Howard (horn) Deirdre Dundas-Grant (bassoon) Wendy Robinson (bassoon)
with JOHN BURNESS (contra-bassoon) CLIFFORD HAINES (trumpet) ALFRED FLASZYNSKI (trombone) JOHN FLETCHER (tuba)
Conducted by EDWARD DOWNES
IAN LAKE (piano)
first broadcast performance
first performance
The two works for wind ensemble are highly contrasted: Wilfred Josephs' Concerto a dodici colourful and stylistically gregarious, and Elisabeth Lutyens' Music for Wind (scored for two wind quintets) austere, cool, and stern. The Sonata by John White (written when the composer was nineteen) marks the opening of a riotously creative career. T.S.
(Edward Downes broadcasts by permission of the Gen. Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)Ã
followed by an interlude at 10.55
