Five Centuries of Occasional Music
SUSAN LONGFIELD (soprano) JANE MANNING (soprano) MERIEL DICKINSON (mezzo-soprano)
JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) MARTIN LANE (counter-tenor) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (bass)
Men"s voices of THE AMBROSIAN SINGERS
DAVID MUNROW, RICHARD LEE and JOHN TURNER (recorders) THEA KING , WILFRED HAMBLFTON and ANTHONY PAY (clarinets)
KEITH HARVEY (cello continuo)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Kenneth Sillito
Directed by PHILIP LEDGER (harpsichord)
From The Maltings, Snape first performance
Conducted by THE COMPOSER
Presented in association with the BBC Music Programme
During the Interval (3.48*-4.8*)
PETER PEARS talks to JAMES BURNETT about the Aldeburgh Festival