Joan Barker (piano)
Margaret Field-Hyde (soprano)
Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
Alexander Young (tenor) Arnold Matters (baritone)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate)
Continuo: Charles Spinks
(organ and harpsichord)
The Goldsbrough Orchestra
(Leader, Emanuel Hunwitz )
Conducted by Anthony Lewis

THE ISRAELITES IN the DESERT (Part 1) for soloists, chorus. and orchestra
This concert, the last of five devoted to the music of C.P.E. Bach, will be repeated tomorrow evening at 6.0 p.m. The oratorio The Israelites in the Desert, one of Bach's later works, was written in Hamburg about 1775 and first performed two years later in Vienna under Gluck, who praised the work warmly. Part 1 deals with the disaffection in the ranks of the Israelites and the smiting of the rock by Moses. D. C.