Vaughan Williams: The Pilgrim’s Progress
John Gielgud (Christian)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Sir Adrian Boult
Vaughan Williams: The Pilgrim’s Progress
John Gielgud (Christian)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Sir Adrian Boult
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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.
Contents and tracklist
- National Choir, BBC Wireless Symphony Orchestra
- Stanford Robinson
- Recorded: 5 January 1929
- Recording Venue: Central Hall, Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom
- Carl Bernard (narrator), Chris Pemberton (narrator), Julian D'Albie (narrator), Margaret Rolfe (contralto), Sir John Gielgud (narrator), Bradbridge White (tenor), James McKechnie (narrator), V.C. Clinton-Baddeley (narrator), Julian Somers (narrator), George Woodbridge (narrator), Cyril Gardiner (narrator), Lilian Harrison (narrator), Carleton Hobbs (narrator), Alan Jeayes (narrator), Stanley Riley (baritone), Laidman Browne (narrator), Margaret Godley (soprano), Ivor Barnard (narrator)
- BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Chorus
- Sir Adrian Boult
- Recorded: 5 September 1943
