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This Week's Composer Purcell

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1659-1695 The
Semi-Operas Purcell was only once given the opportunity to write an all-music opera - that was Dido and Aeneas; his other stage music consists of incidental music to plays, and the five semi-operas, excerpts from which we hear this week. The Masque in Dioclesian
ALFRED DELLER (counter-tenor) HONOR SHEPPARD (soprano)
SALLY LE SAGE (soprano) / MAX WORTHLEY (tenor) PHILIP TODD (tenor)
MAURICE BEVAN (bar), CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA OF THE CONCENTUS
MUSICUS, VIENNA conducted by ALFRED DELLER
9.43* Incidental Music for the' play Dioclesian: ORCHESTRA OF THE CONCENTUS MUSICUS, VIENNA Conducted by ALFRED DELLER gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Semi-Operas Purcell
Tenor:
Maurice Bevan
Conducted By:
Alfred Deller
Conducted By:
Alfred Deller
Source: Radio Times

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