The Roger Wagner Chorale
Conductor, Roger Wagner
(pianos. Dorothy Schultz and Peggy. Sheffield )
The Roger Wagner Chorale of Los Angeles, founded five years ago, consists of sixty young singers, though only about twenty-five are used for broadcast concerts. They made this recording during their visit to London last June. Their programme includes two works by American composers: the Alleluia of Randall Thompson, who is Professor of Music at
Harvard, and the Shelley Fragments by George Antheil, who is best known perhaps, for his autobiography, Bad Boy of Music. D.C.
Alan Pryce-Jones attempts to 'assess the strength and weakness of Wagner's Ring as a composite expression of all the arts
Concerto in D minor. played by Joseph Szige. ti and Ca.nl Flesch
(violins): with an orchestra conducted by Walter Goehr on gramophone records
A dramatised account of life at the fabodar or shielings of Sweden, where women live and herd their cattle on the summer pastures of the mountains
With traditional music on cowhorn, ox-horn, goathonn, sipillaeipipa, and fiddle Uileann pipes played by Seamus Ennis
Programme written, and produced by David Thomson
Kirsten Flagstad (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor,
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Part 1
A series of eight tadks
4-The Rise of New Nations from 1800 onwards by Robin Humphreys
Professor of Hispanic Studies in the University of London
Part 2
Symphony No. 4. in A minor.. Sibelius
Eight sonnets by Jose-Maria de Heredia
(1842-1905)
Read in English by Jill Balcon and David King-Wood ; and in French by Julien Bertheau , Renée Faure . Gerard Philipe. and Madeleine Renaud
New verse translations by Frances Cornford ,L. E. Jones , Naomi Lewis , and Terence Tiller
Arranged and introduced by Rayner Heppenstall
Jeanne Deroubaix (contralto)
Louis Devos (tenor)
Franz Mertens (tenor)
Albert van Ackere (bass)
Silva Devos (recorders)
Janine Tryssesoone (treble viol)
Arthur Dirkx (tenor viol)
Alphonse Bauwens (tenor viol)
Michel Podolski (lute)
Conductor, Safford Cape
A programme of Renaissance music (including works by Heinrioh Isaalc, Pierre de la Rue, and Antoine Bruhier) taken from manuscripts formerly in the: library of Margaret of Austria.
