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Composer of the Week: Barber

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With Humphrey Burton. 5: Barber in Later Life
Must the Winter Come So Soon?; I Should Never Have Been a Doctor; Goodbye, Erika (Vanessa)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, conductor Dmitri Mitropoulos Piano Concerto
John Browning , Cleveland Orchestra, conductor George Szell
The Senate in Rome; Oh Take, Oh Take Those Lips Away (Antony and Cleopatra)
Westminster Choir,
Spoleto Festival Orchestra, conductor Christian Badea
In the Hot Depth of This Summer (The Lovers)
Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Andrew Schenck
Repeated next Friday 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Burton.
Conductor:
Dmitri Mitropoulos
Unknown:
John Browning
Conductor:
George Szell
Conductor:
Christian Badea
Conductor:
Andrew Schenck
Vanessa:
Eleanor Steber (soprano)
Erika:
Rosalind Elias (mezzo)
Anatol:
Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
Old Doctor:
Giorgio Tozzi (bass)
Antony:
Jeffrey Wells (baritone)
Cleopatra:
Esther Hinds (soprano)
Caesar:
Robert Grayson (tenor)
Source: Radio Times

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