Anthony Milner - The Water and the Fire; The Song of Akhenaten

Anthony MILNER (1925-2002)

The Song of Akhenaten, Op. 5 (1954) [14:17]
Janet Price (soprano)
BBC Training Orchestra/Meredith Davies

rec. BBC broadcast, 17 January 1973 MONO

The Water and the Fire (1961) [57:09]
Hazel Holt (soprano), John Elwes (tenor), Stephen Roberts (baritone), BBC Northern Singers, Manchester Grammar School Boys Choir, BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra/Meredith Davies

rec. BBC broadcast, 13 January 1977

Texts included

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Riders to the Sea; Epithalamion; Merciless Beauty

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

Riders to the Sea (Opera after John M.Synge)*

Nora......Norma Burrowes (soprano)

Cathleen...Margaret Price (soprano)

Maurya...Helen Watts (contralto)

Bartley...Benjamin Luxon (baritone)

A Woman...Pauline Stevens (mezzo-soprano)

...Valerie Hill (soprano).Gloria Jennings (contralto)

Ambrosian Singers

Orchestra Nova of London

Meredith Davies (Conductor)

Merciless Beauty (Chaucer): Three rondels for voice and string trio

Philip Landridge (tenor)

Members of the Endrillon String Quartet

 Epithalamion (Spenser)

for Baritone, Chorus, Piano, Solo Flute and String Orchestra

Stephen Roberts (baritone). Howard Shelley (piano), Johnathan Snowden (flute)

The Bach Choir

London Philarmonic Orchestra

Sir David Willcocks (Conductor)