Music of Shakespeare's Time
ELIZABETHAN MADRIGAL ENSEMBLE Barbara Elsy (soprano)
Jennifer Barber (soprano)
John Whitworth (counter-tenor) Ian Partridge (tenor) Robert Tear (tenor) Geoffrey Shaw (bass) with the ELIZABETHAN CONSORT
Director, Dennis Nesbitt
Dennis Nesbitt (treble viol)
Benjamin Kennard (treble viol) Jillian Amherst (tenor viol)
Nancy Neild (tenor and bass viols)
Dietrich Kessler (bass viol)
Directed by Louis HALSEY
ROBERT SPENCER (lute)
ALAN FEN-TAYLOR (harpsichord)
CHOIR OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD
Conductor, BERNARD Rose
Part 1
Music in London, 1588-1605 , MADRIGALS:
A weekly review of the arts
RICHARD BUCKLE talks to
JULIAN JEBB about the Shakespeare Exhibition which opens this week at Stratford-upon-Avon
The exhibition, organised by Mr. Buckle with contributions and assistance from many artists, designers, actors, and 'scholars, aims to show the life and career of Shakespeare against the background of his times.
Music by Byrd
TWO MADRIGALS:
This sweet and merry month
(a 6)
Come, woeful Orpheus
CONSORT MUSIC:
Prelude and Fantasy a 5 Fantasy a 4 KEYBOARD MUSIC:
Variations on O mistress mtm Three Dances:
Third French Coranto A Gigg
The Morris
Fifth Pavan and Gaillard The Queenes Alman
MOTETS:
O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth
Turn our captivity Laudibus in sanctis Justorum animae
Nunc dimittis (Great Service)
Given before an invited audience in the Girls' Grammar School, Shettery Manor, Stratford-upon-Avon. Applications for tickets, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope should be sent to Tuesday invitation Concert, [address removed]
Verdi, Music for voices and instruments; Stravinsky, In Memoriam Dylan Thomas; Mozart, Quartet, K.464; Alan Bush, Dialectic, and new work for violin, percussion, and string quartet.
A selection of astringent verse
Introduced by D. G. BRIDSON
3: 18th to 20th Centuries
Readers:
DENIS GOACHER , MARIUS GORING and DENYS HAWTHORNE
Symphony No. 38. in D major
(Prague) played by the COLUMBIA SYMPHONY Orchestra
Conducted by BRUNO WALTER on a gramophone record