The fourth of 13 programmes VALERIE MASTERSON (SOpranO) VICTORIA SUMNER (soprano) JOHN BRECKNOCK (tenor)
NEWCASTLE FESTIVAL CHORUS chorus-master PAUL ABBOTT LAYTON RING (harpsichord continuo)
NORTHERN SINFONIA ORCHESTRA leader HARRY WILDE conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS Excerpts from .1. C. Bach 's first London opera Orione (1763)
(Valerie Masterson and John Brecknock appear by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera)