Performers:
The Clerkes of Oxenford
Alison Stamp (narrator, second Angel), James Stockley (narrator),
Christopher Hodges (Balthazar), Robin Barda (satrap = governor),
Richard Price (satrap = governor), Helen Dixon (Queen), Nigel Nixon
(man # 1), Frederic Goodwin (man # 2), Michael Smedley (man # 3),
Marcus Creed (Daniel), Roger Phillipson (Darius), Joseph Polglase
(counsellor # 1), John Bain (counsellor # 2), David Wulstan (messenger
# 1), David Watson (messenger #2), Peter Hayward (jealous counsellor
# 1), Michael Hartley (jealous counsellor # 2), Giles Dawson
(Habacuc), Mary King (first Angel), Chorus of Dignitaries (Sally
Dunkley, Elizabeth Norman, Theodora Rudge, Suella Darkins, Cynthia
Bain, Una Goble, Elizabeth Rees, Peter Herron, Brian Spooner, Andrea
Gobble), Peter Walls (rebec), Joan Brickley (rebec), David Hiley
(percussion), Simon Thorne (percussion), Sarah Cobbold (percussion),
Margaret Rees (flutes with mouthpiece), Frances Trafford-Walker
(small harp)
David Wulstan, dir.
Playing time: 44' 50"
Recording site and date:
Oxford, UK [12/1975];
Rel.: 1976; 1980 (Nonesuch)
Compilation
Calliope CAL 9848
Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 207-67 (may 1976)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 4/4- (Mar/Apr 1981)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 54/642-844 (november 1976)
Comments:
Information from LP (Nonesuch).
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Pierre-F. Roberge