Research Catalog

Title

The Hoffnung Astronautical Music Festival [sound recording].

Author

Hoffnung Music Festival concert (1961 : London, England)

Publication

[S.l.] : Angel, [1962]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hoffnung, Gerard.
• Baines, Francis, 1917-1999.
• Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
• Searle, Humphrey.
• Chagrin, Francis.
• Horovitz, Joseph, 1926-2022.
• Leonard, Lawrence, 1923-2001.
• Del Mar, Norman, 1919-1994
• Hoffnung Choral Society. prf
• Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra. prf

Subject

• Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 > Parodies, imitations, etc
• Humorous music

Note

• Program notes by Annetta Hoffnung and Peter Andry and words of the duet and the oratorio ([4] p. : ill.) inserted in container.

Event (note)

• Recorded at Royal Festival Hall, London, Nov. 28, 1961.

Contents

Introductory music played in the foyer / Francis Baines -- Festival anthem / Francis Baines -- Overture, Leonora no. 4 / Beethoven (with Lionel Salter, organ) -- Duet from the comic opera "The Barber of Darmstadt" / Bruno Heinz Jaja ; "random realizatin from and original graph by Humphrey Searle ; translation of the German libretto by William Mann" (with John Amis, tenor, Owen Brannigan, bass) -- Ballad of County Down : mostly in D major / Francis Chagrin (with Forbes Robinson, speaker) -- Excerpt from "Belshazzar's feast" / William Walton ; introduced by T.E. Bean -- Horrortorio / [music by] Joseph Horovitz ; words by Alistair Sampson, from a scenario by Maurice Richardson (with: April Cantelo, soprano ; Pamela Bowden, contralto ; Stephen Manton, tenor ; John Frost, bass ; Lionel Salter, harpsichord) -- Mobile : for seven orchestras (with Lionel Salter, organ).

LCCN

r 62000690

OCLC

• ocm03956898
• SCSB-576253

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library