The Pilgrim’s Progress | Albion Records ALBCD023024

The Pilgrim’s Progress

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Label: Albion Records

Cat No: ALBCD023024

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 30th October 2015

Contents

Artists

John Gielgud
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
National Chorus
BBC Wireless Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Adrian Boult
Stanford Robinson

Works

Bantock, Granville

Pilgrim's Progress (2 choruses)

Vaughan Williams, Ralph

The Pilgrim's Progress (Incidental Music to the Radio Play)

Artists

John Gielgud
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
National Chorus
BBC Wireless Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Adrian Boult
Stanford Robinson

About

This is the first commercial release of the BBC’s radio broadcast of a play based on 'The Pilgrim’s Progress' in September 1943, with incidental music by Vaughan Williams. This was eight years before Vaughan Williams completed his opera of the same name, so there are dramatic and musical differences. Sir Adrian Boult conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and the cast of actors is led by John Gielgud as Christian.

Additionally, there are recordings from 1929 of two choruses by Sir Granville Bantock written for a production celebrating the tercentenary of John Bunyan, performed by the National Chorus and the BBC Wireless Symphony Orchestra under Stanford Robinson.

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