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cb46535
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Buxton Orr: Wager, The: Opera in One Act [full stage version] (1962) 85' [w7806]
S T Bar B Satb 2(1)2(1)22 4230 Tp 2 Perc Hp Str
Author: Hamilton Johnston; First Performed: New Opera Company: Elizabeth Robson (Myra), Adrian de Peter (Shrimp), John Rhys Evans (Beam), Gerwyn Morgan (Gunk), New Opera Chorus London Opera Sinfonietta, conducted by David Lloyd-Jones Sadler's Wells Theatre, London 1962-12-04. More details |
| Title | The Wager |
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| Format | score |
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| Recorded | 0000-00-00 |
| Broadcast / released | 0000-00-00 |
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| Location | archive collection [Stored offsite: Box 2201] |
| Year Acquired | 2022 |
| Notes | Bound full score (ms) with 'corrections incorporated') 365p. Includes note re 'version recorded in Scotland, 25 March 1970) (with BBC SSO / Bryden Thomson and soloists Duncan Robertson, Alan Watt, Geoffrey Davidson, Patricia Greig' which seems to have been a concert version, without chorus; explains that the chorus parts can be omitted except in certain specified places where the chorus parts are to be sung by Shrimp and Gunk. Copy of The Listener (1 Oct 1970) re second broadcast on 20 Dec 1970 of studio recording by BBC SSO. |
| Digitised | No |
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