Amy Beach - Piano Quintet; Rebecca Clarke - Piano Trio, Viola Sonata

Amy BEACH (1867-1944)

Quintet for Piano and Strings *

Rebecca CLARKE (1886-1979)

Piano Trio **

Sonata for Viola and Piano ***

Endellion Quartet *

Martin Roscoe (Piano)* ** ***

Andrew Watkinson (Violin) **

Garfield Jackson (Viola) ** ***

Redorded in St.Silas Church, Kentish Town, London, 28-30 November 1994

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)