22 Nov 1983
Works performed:
Britten: Three Divertimenti; Britten: Temporal Variations; Britten: Holiday Diary; Britten: A Sitwell Sequence; Britten: Canticle III 'Still falls the rain'; Britten: Unpublished Songs; Britten: Two Songs of Thomas Hardy; Britten: Not Even Summer Yet; Britten: Three Rhymes by William Soutar; Britten: String Quartet No. 3
Venue:
Wigmore Hall, London
Performers:
Peter Pears; Neil Mackie (tenor); Richard Watkins (horn); Iain Burnside (piano); Nicholas Daniel (oboe); Julius Drake (piano); Brodsky String Quartet
Further information:
Subtitled 'Music for Ben on his Seventieth Birthday'. Supported by the Musicians Benevolent Fund and presented by the Britten-Pears Foundation. Concert introduced by Sir Peter Pears and he also read Auden's A Hymn to St. Cecilia. 5 copies and 2 flyers. Programme annotated with reading durations. Contains note from Sound News Studios about Masters of the Wigmore Recording dated 2 December 1983.
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Archive
https://www.bpacatalogue.org/archive/PG-1983-1122B
