in association with the Barber Institute, Birmingham Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Andrew Pearmain (counter-tenor)
Bruce Boyce (baritone) Birmingham University
Special Choir with members of the BBC Midland Singers
BBC Midland Orchestra (Leader, James Hutcheon )
Conducted by Anthony Lewis
Continuo:
George Miles (harpsichord)
Lance Bowen (cello)
Brian Trowell (organ)
Additional parts sung by Marion Milford (soprano)
Robert Ellis (tenor)
PART 1
Purcell
Overture, Dances, and Incidental
Music: Bonduca
Curtain Tune on a Ground: Timon of Athens
A Birthday Ode (Queen Mary), 1694:
Come. ye sons of art

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PART 2
Handel
Overture, Arias, and Final Chorus:
Sosarme
Dettingen Anthem: The King shall rejoice
From the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham

A visit to Mexico shocked JAMES JOLL , Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford, into an awareness of how little history a professional historian may know out-tide his special field of study and showed him the danger of trying to fit an unfamiliar society into any specific historical pattern.

Prokofiev and Shostakovich
played by Kyla Greenbaum
Last of a series of .six programmes