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A Midsummer Night's Dream

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Music inspired by Shakespeare's play
Purcell(edited by Britten, Imogen. Holst and Peter Pears )
The Fairy Queen: Symphony and excerpts from Part 1 (Oberon's Birthday): SOLOISTS
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS * ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted bV BENJAMIN BRITTEN
3.7* Britten Are we all met? (A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act 2)
SOLOISTS
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
3.15* Mendelssohn Incidental Music
HANNEKE VAN BORK (soprano)
ALFREDA HODGSON (contralto) ' AMBROSIAN SINGERS
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL FRÜBECK DE BURGOS gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Pears
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Contralto:
Alfreda Hodgson
Conducted By:
Rafael Frübeck de Burgos
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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