ONE SHflUNG

DECEMBER, 1945

T...de Offi ce :

Montague House RuueU Square london, W .C.1

Tel.pI!one: Museum 8521

incorporating

VOX , THE R ADIO C RITIC aAd BROADCAST REVIEW

Edited" by

COMPTON MACKENZIE an d CHRISTOPHER STONE

LONDON EDITO R • CECIL POLLARD

Editor;.' Office: 49 Ebrington Road

K an ~on. Harrow

Middlesex Teleono... : Worcb worth 201.

DIDO & AENEAS

Edited by E. J . Dent

Dido & Aeneas, one of th e grea t landmarks in Opera, was composed fo ......p erformance by the pupils of a Girl s' School a t Chelsea, in 1689. I t th en fell int o neg lec t for ove r two centuri,.s until 1895, a nd performances are still ·of rare occurrence. In this splendid comple te recording, made under the auspi ces of the Bri ti sh Council , music lov ers will find a worth y tr ibute to the gen ius of H enry Purcell.

COMPLETE RECORDING

Isobel BailIie, Joan Hammond, Joan Fullerton (Sopranos);

Dennis Noble (Baritone); Edith Coates (Contralto) ; Edna Hobson (Soprano) ; Gladys Ripley (Contralto);

Sylvia Patriss (Soprano) ; "Trefor Jones (Tenor)

Philharmonia String Orchestra with Chorus

Harpsichord: Boris Ord Co lducted by Constant Lambert

C 3471·77 Automatic Co up lin I s C 7628·34

ARTISTS. FINEST