A parable for church performance
Words by WILLIAM PLOMER
Music by Benjamin Britten in the production by the English Opera Group
The Herald and Chorus Leader
PETER LEEMING (bass-baritone) ENGLISH OPERA GROUP CHORUS RICHARD ADENEY (flute) NEILL SANDERS (horn)
CECIL ARONOWITZ (Viola)
KEITH MARJORAM (double-bass) BRIAN WILSON (harp)
JAMES BLADES (percussion) ROGER BRENNER (trombone) PHILIP LEDGER (organ)
The action takes place In Babylon in the sixth century B.C.
Kenneth Macdonald broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden; Stafford Dean by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company tPart of a Promenade Concert broadcast on July 24. 1967