The Pilerim's Progress
Morality in a prologue and four acts Music by Vaughan Williams Libretto by the composer after JOHN BUNYAN
(gramophone records)
Vaughan Williams once said of The Pilgrim's Progress ' They don'like it, they won'like it and perhaps they never will like it, but it's the sort of opera I wanted to write, and there it is.'
Madam By-Ends
GLORIA JENNINGS
Three Shepherds:
TERENCE SHARPE, WYNFORD EVANS
ROBERT LLOYD
Voice of a Bird
SHEILA ARMSTRONG
Celestial Messenger JOHN ELWES Voices from Heaven:
DOREEN PRICE (soprano)
JEAN TEMPERLEY (mezzo-sop)
KENNETH WOOLAM (tenor)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT Prologue; Acts 1 and 2 3.25* '... never a professing Christian '
HUGH OTTAWAY discusses some of the tensions and conflicts in Vaughan Williams's music.
3.40* The Pilgrim's Progress Acts 3 and 4: Epilogue