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of Euripides
Freely adapted by Ford Madox Ford
Characters in order of speaking:
Music composed by Antony Hopkins
Produced by Frank Hauser

Contributors

Composed By:
Antony Hopkins
Produced By:
Frank Hauser
Orcus, god of death:
Max Adrian
Apollo:
Robert Urquhart
First market-woman:
Nan Marriott-Watson
Second market-woman:
Hester Paton Brown
Third market-woman:
Jill Nyasa
Fourth market-woman:
Gladys Spencer
Fifth market-woman:
Ella Milne
Chorus, a nobleman:
Russell Napier
Attendant:
Rachel Gurney
Alcestis, Queen of Pherae:
Grizelda Hervey
Admetus, King of'Pherae:
Andrs Morell
Eumelus, their son:
Jill Nyasa
Hercules:
Valentine Dyall
Pheres, father of Admetus:
Robert Farquharson

according to St. John
(with choruses by William Byrd ) sung by the Choir of Westminster Cathedral
Director, George Malcolm
Between the early plainsong settings of the Passion and the many later versions for chorus and orchestra there stands a type that displays both dramatic and musical contrast in its distribution of the text. The words of Christ and of the Narrator are intoned, while those of the crowd (turbarutn voces) are given to an unaccompanied choir. Byrd's setting of these short choruses was published in 1605.

Contributors

Unknown:
William Byrd
Unknown:
George Malcolm

Third Programme

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