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Athalia

BBC Radio 3
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Oratorio in three acts
Text by SAMUEL HUMPHREYS after racines play Athalie Music by Handel records
(soprano) (bass) (counter-tenor) (SOpranO) (tenor) (treble)
CHOIR OF NEW COLLEGE. OXFORD ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC/ CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD Act
3.0* Interval Reading
3.5* Acts 2 and 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Samuel Humphreys
Music:
Christopher Hogwood
Josabeth, wife of Joad:
Emma Kirkby
Abner, captain of the Jewish forces:
David Thomas
Joad, high priest:
James Bowman
Athalia, Baalite queen of Judah,daughter of Jezebel:
Joan Sutherland
Mathan, priest of Baal,formerly a Jewish priest:
Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Joas, King of Judah:
Aled Jones
Source: Radio Times

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