First of three programmes tracing Sir Michael Tippett 's continuing interest in Shakespeare's The Tempest, and including his two pieces to words by W. B. Yeats. Words for Music Perhaps (A sequence of love poems by W. B. Yeats ), for speaking voices and chamber ensemble With NORMAN RODWAY
BARBARA JEFFORD and MOIR LESLIE A Vision of the Island Text arranged from
SHAKESPEARE'S The Tempest by IAN COTTERELL
Music adapted by Andrew Parrott from Tippett's incidental music for
The Tempest (Old Vic, 1962) (first performance of this version)
NASH ENSEMBLE conducted by ANDREW PARROTT Producers ANTHONY BURTON and IAN COTTERELL
(Part 2. comprising a complete recording of Tippett's 's opera 'The Knot Garden can be heard tomorrow at
6.0pm; Part 3, including the 'Songs for Dov follows on Monday at 9.55 pm)