A Pageant in Sound from the Works of the Venetian Masters
given before an audience in Liverpool Cathedral
Introduced by Alec Robertson

2.30-4.30

ILSE WOLF (soprano) HONOR SHEPARD (soprano) Alfred Deller (counter-tenor) WILFRED BROWN (tenor) CYRIL HORNBY (tenor) WILLIAM Coombes (baritone) JOLYON Donfison (bass-baritone)
Continuo: Noel Rawsthorne (organ) Charles Spinks (chamber organ) Wendy L/Evesque (harp) Bertha Murnaghan (harp)
Liverpool Welsh Choral Union (Chorus-Master, Caleb Jarvis)
Liverpool Cathedral Choir (Choirmaster, Ronald WÍlan)
A Choir and Recorder Group of Liverpool Schoolchildren (Trained by W.H.J. Jenkins)
BBC Northern Orchestra (Leader, Reginald Stead)
Conducted by Walter Goehr

PART 1 at 2.30
Giovanni Gabrieli Canzon primi toni Motet: In Ecclesiis Vivaldi Gloria

3.25 app. The Sounds of Venice
A talk by James Morris, journalist and world traveller
'Venice,' said Nietzsche, 'is a synonym for Music.' Today the truly Venetian sounds are homelier, less high-flown, and often much, much noisier.
(BBC recording)

PART 2 at 3.40 app.
Monteverdi Motet: O Beatae Viae Audi coelum; Ave Maris Stella (Vespers, 1610) Magnificat (Selva Morale) (first performance in modern times)

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