in association with the Barber Institute, Birmingham Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Andrew Pearmain (counter-tenor)
Bruce Boyce (baritone) Birmingham University
Special Choir with members of the BBC Midland Singers
BBC Midland Orchestra (Leader, James Hutcheon )
Conducted by Anthony Lewis
Continuo:
George Miles (harpsichord)
Lance Bowen (cello)
Brian Trowell (organ)
Additional parts sung by Marion Milford (soprano)
Robert Ellis (tenor)
PART 1
Purcell
Overture, Dances, and Incidental
Music: Bonduca
Curtain Tune on a Ground: Timon of Athens
A Birthday Ode (Queen Mary), 1694:
Come. ye sons of art