Plays and Players
5: "Such stuff as dreams are made on Christopher Cook rounds up his week of music written for the theatre with a look at the experimental - an exotic mixture of commedia dell'arte, oriental ism, adventure and magic. Including music from the 1930s by Benjamin Britten written for a play partly inspired by the life of Lawrence of Arabia.
Faure Suite: Masques et Bergamasques BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Emmanuel Krivine
Delius Hassan (incidental music) BBC Philharmonic, conductor Richard Hickox
Norman O'Neill L 'Oiseau Bleu (incidental music to Maeterlinck 's play) BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley
Britten The Ascent of F6 (incidental music) Peter Eyre (speaker),
BBC Singers, Psappha Ensemble , conductor Stephen Layton