An opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten
Words by WILLIAM PLOMER Concert performance
Cast in order of singing: \(baritone) (tenor) (baritone) (soprano) (bass) baritone) (bass-baritone) (tenor) (soprano) (contralto) (soprano) (tenor)
(bass-baritone) guitar. (mezzo-soprano) (baritone)
Citizens, maids of honour. ladies and gentlemen of the Household. courtiers, masquers, men and boys of Essex's following, councillors
THE WILLIAM ELLIS SCHOOL BOYS' CHOIR
Conductor, Leonhard Prinz
THE ELIZABETHAN SINGERS Conductor. Louis Halsey
London PHILHARMONIC CHOIR Chorus-Master,
Frederic Jackson
TRUMPETERS OF THE
ROYAL MILITARY SCHOOL OF MUSIC by permission of the Commandant
POLYPHONIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, William Armon
Conductor, BRYAN FAIRFAX
Stage Director, Colin Graham
From the Royal Festival Hall, London
Acts 1 and 2
A reading from
EDWARD FAIRFAX'S translation of the poem by TORQUATO TASSO
Introduced by J. M. COHEN Reader, MARIUS GORING
Act 3
by RUPERT CROSS
Fellow of Magdalen College. Oxford
Dr. Cross discusses some instances of actions that would be better left to the moral conscience without legal intervention. Second broadcast followed by an Interlude at 10.50
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