Episode 12

Penny Gore concludes this week's series of theatre music, including pieces with a religious theme: today, Vaughan Williams's 'masque for dancing', Job, and a special new BBC Philharmonic recording of Schubert's music for the play Rosamunde, complete with the original overture played at the first performance. Plus a rare chance to hear Benjamin Britten's incidental music to Auden and Isherwood's play, The Ascent of F6.

Schubert: Rosamunde
Mary Bevan (soprano),
Martha Jones (mezzo-soprano),
Anthony Gregory (tenor),
Henry Waddington (bass),
Manchester Chamber Choir,
BBC Philharmonic,
Paul Daniel (conductor).

Britten: The Ascent of F6
Eleanor Meynell (soprano),
Jacqueline Fox (mezzo-soprano),
Peter Wilman (tenor),
Simon Birchall (bass),
Actors - Alison Smart, Julia Batchelor, Andrew Murgatroyd, Stephen Charlesworth,
BBC Singers,
Stephen Layton (conductor).

Foulds: Henry VIII Suite, Op 87
BBC Concert Orchestra,
Ronald Corp (conductor).

Vaughan Williams: Job: a Masque for Dancing
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor).