The Whitbread

Music of London Concerts

Devised by Michael Oliver

 

 

Production Information

 

Barbican Hall, London 22nd September & 11th October 1982

 

Cast

 

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Michael Pennington

Ian McDiarmid

 

The London Symphony Orchestra

Conductor     Charles Groves

 

Director          Cordelia Monsey                                                                            

Designer        Allan Watkins

 

Programme

 

A Shattered Machine

Weber in London 1826

 

WEBER

Overture Der Freischütz

Overture Oberon

 

Carl Maria von Weber                     Michael Pennington

Fanny Kemble and others              Barbara Leigh-Hunt            

 

An Asylum in England

Berlioz in London 1847/8

 

BERLIOZ

Hungarian March from ‘The Damnation of Faust’

Marche funèbre from ‘Hamlet’

 

Hector Berlioz                                  Ian McDiarmid

 

Nothing but Whisky and Bad Weather

Mendelssohn in London 1842

 

MENDELSSOHN

Symphony No. 3 ‘Scottish’

 

Felix Mendelssohn                          Michael Pennington

Carl Klingemann                              Ian McDiarmid

                                               

 

 

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