A performance in BENJAMIN BRITTEN 'S edition, translated by PETER PEARS and IMOGEN HOLST , recorded before an invited audience in St John's, Smith Square, London, and first broadcast in April 1973
NORMA BURROWES (soprano) DOREEN WALKER (contralto) CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (bass) Continuo:
ALASTAIR ROSS (organ)
NAOMI BUTTERWORTH (cello)
RODNEY SLATFORD (double-bass) ROBERT JORDAN (bassoon) Obbligati:
SIMON STANHAGE (violin) EDWARD ROBERTS (violin) RICHARD MCNICOI. L (flute) VALERIE BUTT (flute)
SARAH BARRINGTON (oboe and oboe d'amore)
MOYRA MONTAGU (oboe and oboe d'amore)
ROBERT SPENCER (lute)
RICHARD HICKOX SINGERS AND
ORCHESTRA leader SIMON STANDAGE conductor RICHARD HICKOX Part 1
8.10* Christopher Pemberton reads from Cardinal Newman's sermon Mental Suffering of Our Lord in His Pussion 8.30* Bach: St John Passion
Part 2 followed by an interlude