From Birmingham
The Birmingham Studio Chorus and Augmented Orchestra (Leader, Frank Cantell)
Conducted by Joseph Lewis
Emilie Waldron (Soprano); Alice Vaughan (Contralto); Geoffrey Dame (Tenor); James Howell (Bass)
Vocal Quartet, Chorus, and Orchestra
'The Golden Threshold' (Liza Lehmann)
An Indian Song Garland for Solo Voices, Chorus, and Orchestra
Poems by Naidu
Song, 'You flaunt your beauty/in the Rose'
Song, 'Alabaster'
Duet, 'Like a Serpent to the calling voice of Flutes'
Song, 'Song of a Dream'
Solo and Chorus, 'The Royal Tombs of Golconda'
Solo and Quartet, 'To a Buddha'
Song, 'The Snake-charmer'
Song, 'Cradle Song'
Chorus, 'Harvest Hymn'
Duet and Chorus, 'Henna'
Duet, 'Palanquin Bearers'
Song, 'The Serpents are asleep'
Chorus, 'Nightfall in the City of Hyderabad'
Chorus, 'Indian Dancers'
Trio, 'New leaves grow green on the Banyan twigs'
Solo and Quartet, ' At the Threshold'
Delibes wrote the music for Victor Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (which also supplied another composer with an opportunity, since Verdi's Rigoletto is an Operatic treatment of it). The play was a gory and passionate production, but gave Delibes opportunities for some charming incidental music, as this Suite will show. Several of the pieces in it are in old dance forms-the brisk Galliard, the slow and stately Pavane, and the lively Passepied.
