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The Sunday Play: Before and After Summer

BBC Radio 3
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By Martyn Wade.
Starring Hugh Ross as the composer, Janet McTeer as Joy Finzi, and Anna Massey as Finzi's mother

A portrait of one of England's most underrated composers, Gerald Finzi (1901-1956). Poetry was often the inspiration for Finzi's elegiac and beautiful music, which captures the spirit of the English countryside. Having decided to become a composer at the age of 11, it was his marriage to a truly exceptional woman that gave him the confidence to pursue his chosen profession.

Clifford Benson (piano)
Theresa Finzi (violin)

[The three starring actors' details are omitted from this billing in error - taken from 1996 repeat]

Contributors

Writer:
Martyn Wade
Pianist:
Clifford Benson
Violinist:
Theresa Finzi
Director:
Cherry Cookson
Gerald Finzi:
Hugh Ross [unbilled]
Joy Finzi:
Janet McTeer [unbilled]
Finzi's mother:
Anna Massey [unbilled]
Howard Ferguson:
Keith Drinkel
Young Finzi:
Peter England
Ernest Farrar:
David Collings
Vaughan Williams:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Marion Scott:
Tessa Worsley
Headmaster:
John Turner
Village Woman:
Zulema Dene
[Actor]:
Roger May
[Actress]:
Patience Tomlinson
[Actor]:
Ross Livingstone [billed as Ros Livingstone]
[Actor]:
Paul Jenkins
Source: Radio Times

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