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Afternoon Concert: Music for the Theatre: Episode 12

Episode 12

Music for the Theatre

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Music for the Theatre, Episode 12

Penny Gore presents music by Schubert, Britten, Foulds and Vaughan Williams.

Penny Gore presents music for the Theatre. Schubert: Rosamunde. Britten: The Ascent of F6. Foulds: Henry VIII Suite. Vaughan Williams: Job: A Masque for Dancing.

Penny Gore concludes this week's series of theatre music, including pieces with a religious theme: today, Vaughan Williams's 'masque for dancing', Job, and a special new BBC Philharmonic recording of Schubert's music for the play Rosamunde, complete with the original overture played at the first performance. Plus a rare chance to hear Benjamin Britten's incidental music to Auden and Isherwood's play, The Ascent of F6. 

Schubert: Rosamunde
Mary Bevan (soprano),
Martha Jones (mezzo-soprano),
Anthony Gregory (tenor),
Henry Waddington (bass),
Manchester Chamber Choir,
BBC Philharmonic,
Paul Daniel (conductor).

Britten: The Ascent of F6
Eleanor Meynell (soprano),
Jacqueline Fox (mezzo-soprano),
Peter Wilman (tenor),
Simon Birchall (bass),
Actors - Alison Smart, Julia Batchelor, Andrew Murgatroyd, Stephen Charlesworth,
BBC Singers,
Stephen Layton (conductor).

Foulds: Henry VIII Suite, Op 87
BBC Concert Orchestra,
Ronald Corp (conductor).

Vaughan Williams: Job: a Masque for Dancing
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Music for the Theatre

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