(1763-1817)
Margaret Field-Hyde (soprano)
Marjorie Westbury (soprano)
Stuart Ward (counter-tenor)
Paul Derenne (tenor)
Lloyd Strauss-Smith (tenor)
William Parsons (bass-baritone)
Ian Wallace (bass-baritone)
Stanley Riley (bass)
(Continued in next column)
BBC Men's Chorus
(Cfhorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
Philharmonia Orchestra
(Leader. Manoug Parikian )
Conducted by Robert Irving
Overture: Le Jeune Sage eit le Vieux
Fou
Duo: Le bon sens est votre partage
(Le Jeune Sage et le Vieux Fou)
Air: Ombres de mes aleux (Uthal) Hymne au Sommeil (Uthal)
Romance: Ainsd d'un prejuge bar-bare (Mélidore et Phrosane)
Scene from Act 3 (Melidore et Phrosdne)
March (Valentine de Milan)
This is the last of three programmes of French operatic music (devised by Robert Collet ), and shows Mlhul's fondness for experiments in orchestration and unusual effects. The orchestra accompanying the Hymn from Uthal consists of two flutes, two horns, strings without violins, and harp; and the Scene from Act 3 of Milidore et Phrosine contains an early example of melodrama (spoken dialogue with orchestral background). D.C.