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The Afternoon on Three

on BBC Radio 3

With Paul Guinery.
FAIREST ISLE
1.00 British Opera Matinee
Britten Albert Herring Humphrey Carpenter introduces a comic favourite, which vividly sends up the colourful characters and petty politics of rural
Suffolk that Britten knew so well. The village of Loxford needs a May queen for its spring festivities, but the only young person to be found with his virtue still intact is the greengrocer's son, still tied to his mother's apron strings.
English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by the Composer Discs
3.35 New Waves
Jane Atkins (viola)
Andrew West (piano)
Lutyens Sonata for solo viola
Saxton Invocation, Dance and Meditation
Christian Alexander How
Hearts May Beat
Saxton Chacony , for piano left hand
Britten Lachrymae Rpt
4.30 The BBC
Orchestras
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor Martyn Brabbins Dvorak Symphonic Variations
Rpt

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Guinery.
Unknown:
Britten Albert Herring
Introduces:
Humphrey Carpenter
Viola:
Jane Atkins
Piano:
Lutyens Sonata
Unknown:
Christian Alexander
Unknown:
Saxton Chacony
Conductor:
Martyn Brabbins
Lady Billows:
Sylvia Fisher (sop)
Florence Pike:
Johanna Peters (mezzo)
Miss Wordsworth:
April Cantelo (sop)
MrGedge:
John Noble (bar)
Mr Upfold:
Edgar Evans (tenor)
Superintendent Budd:
Owen Brannigan (bass)
Sid:
Joseph Ward (tenor)
Albert Herring:
Peter Pears (tenor)
Nancy:
Catherine Wilson (sop)
Mrs Herring:
Sheila Rex (contralto)

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