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by Euripides
Translated by Philip Vellacott
Music composed by Anthony Bernard
Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes
Cast in order of speaking and singing: The Goddess Athene Lydia Sherwood
Incidental music played by the Augmented BBC Variety Orchestra
(Leader. George Deason )
Conducted by Rae Jenkins
(Continued in next column)
Choral music sung by Margaret Barnes (mezzo-soprano) and the BBC Women's Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate ) with the London Chamber Players
Conducted by Anthony Bernard
(.) (Revival of the production first broadcast in Sept. 1949)

Contributors

Translated By:
Philip Vellacott
Composed By:
Anthony Bernard
Production By:
Raymond Raikes
Leader:
George Deason
Conducted By:
Rae Jenkins
Mezzo-Soprano:
Margaret Barnes
Chorus-Master:
Leslie Woodgate
Conducted By:
Anthony Bernard
Iphigeneia, daughter of Agamemnon,King of Argos and of Clyteimnestra:
Hermione Hannen
Narrator:
Frederick Allen
Pylades, Prince of Phocis, friend to Orestes:
Noel Johnson
Orestes brother of Iphigeneia:
Anthony Jacobs
Chorus ot captive Greek women, hand-maids to Iphigeneia:
Bbc Women'S Chorus
Chorus Leader:
Margaret Barnes
A Herdsman:
Eric Lugg
Thoas, King of the Taurilans:
Lawrence Baskcomb
A Temple Guard, a messenger:
Raf de la Torre

Music by Bach
Text by Picander, after Ovid
(Edited by Arnold Goldsbrough )
Elsie Morison (soprano)
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
William Herbert (tenor)
Rene Soames (tenor)
Gordon Clinton (baritone)
Norman Walker (bass)
A Choir
Hubert Dawkes and Basil Lam
(harpsichords)
The Goldsbrough Orchestra (Leader, EmanueJ Hurwitz )
Conductor, Arnold Goldsbrough

Contributors

Edited By:
Arnold Goldsbrough
Soprano:
Elsie Morison
Soprano:
Alfred Deller
Tenor:
William Herbert
Tenor:
Rene Soames
Baritone:
Gordon Clinton
Bass:
Norman Walker
Unknown:
Hubert Dawkes
Harpsichords:
Basil Lam
Leader:
Emanuej Hurwitz
Conductor:
Arnold Goldsbrough

Joy Boughton (oboe)
Millicent Silver (piano)
Hirsch String Quartet:
Leonard Hirsch (violin) Patrick Halling (violin) Stephen Shingles (viola) Francisco Gabarro (cello)
(The Schumann Romances are recorded.) Another programme of music by Haydn and Schumann: August 8

Contributors

Oboe:
Joy Boughton
Piano:
Millicent Silver
Violin:
Leonard Hirsch
Violin:
Patrick Halling
Viola:
Stephen Shingles
Cello:
Francisco Gabarro

Third Programme

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More