PATRICIA CLARK (soprano) MARY THOMAS (soprano) ROBERT TEAR (tenor) MAURICE BEVAN (baritone)
OLIVE ZORIAN (violin) FRANCES MASON (violin)
LONDON TROMBONE Quartet Tony Moore, John Edney, Alan Lumsden, John Pritchard
Joy HallL (viola da gamba and cello continuo)
Roy Jesson (organ and harpsichord continuo)
Ralph Holmes (violin)
Eric Allen (percussion)
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET Sydney Humphreys, Raymond Keenlyside, Watson Forbes, Derek Simpson
Part 1
Alan Bush
Dialectic, Op. 15, for string quartet
8.45* Schutz
O quam tu pulchra es, for tenor, baritone, two violins and continuo
Fili mi, Absalon, for baritone, four trombones, and continuo
(Symphoniae sacrae. 1629)
9.4* Alan Bush
Prelude, Air, and Dance, Op 61, for violin, string quartet. and percussion
Commissioned by the BBC first performance
Conducted by the composer
Given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London. Applications for tickets, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope, should be sent to [address removed]