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This Week's Composers

on BBC Radio 3

Purcell and Britten
Purcell Now the night; Let the fifes and the clarions; Entry of Phoebus; When a cruel long winter; Hail! great parent (The Fairy Queen)
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Great minds against themselves conspire; Dido's Lament; With drooping wings (Dido and Aeneas)
LONDON OPERA CHORUS
ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL STRINGS conducted by STEUART BEDFORD
Britten Lucretia's confession and death;
Ensemble of mourning (The Rape of Lucretia)
with other cast members
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER I know a bank; The iron tongue of midnight (A Midsummer Night's Dream) with other members of the Cast, CHOIRS OF DOWNSIDE AND EMANUEL SCHOOLS
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Benjamin Britten
Conducted By:
Steuart Bedford

BBC Radio 3

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