Michael Tippett - A Child of Our Time

Michael TIPPETT (1905-1998)

A Child of Our Time (1944)

Sheila Armstrong, Felicity Palmer, Philip Langridge, John Shirley-Quirk

Brighton Festival Chorus

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Andre Previn

Recorded in EMI Studios, Abbey Road, London (July 5th & 6th. 1986)

Vaughan Williams - Hugh The Drover (Opera in Two Acts)

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

Hugh the Drover (or Love in the Stocks)
Opera in two acts

Robert Tear, Sheila Armstrong, Michael Rippon, Robert Lloyd, Helen Watts, Leslie Fyson, Oliver Broome, Sally Burgess, Terence Sharpe, David Johnson,

Ambrosian Opera Chorus
Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Sir Charles Groves

rec. 1978, Kingsway Hall, London

First Recording

Britten - Spring Symphony Op. 44, Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes

Benjamin BRITTEN (1913-1976)

Spring Symphony Op. 44 / Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes

Sheila Armstrong, Dame Janet Baker, Robert Tear, 

London Symphony Orchestra 

Andre Previn (Conductor