HAVERGAL BRIAN
THE TIGERS -Burlesque opera in a prologue and three acts, 1917-29
Libretto: Havergal Brian
Recorded on 3-8 January 1983 at the BBC Maida Vale Studios. Broadcast on BBC Radio3, 3 May 1983
Marilyn Hill Smith, Anne-Marie Owens, John Winfield, Alan Watt, Norman Welsby, Henry Herford,
Dennis Wicks, Ian Caddy, Kenneth Woollam, Richard Angas, Paul Crook, Teresa Cahill,
Alison Hargan, Alan Opie, Harry Nicoll, John Dudley, Michael Bundy, Ameral Gunson,
Eric Shilling, Malcolm Donnelly
BBC Singers chorus-master Simon Joly
BBC Symphony Orchestra leaders Rodney Friend & Maurice Brett
Lionel Friend
STRAUSS
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op.28; Don Juan, Op.20
Tod und Verklärung, Op.24
WAGNER
Tannhäuser – Venusberg Music
Philharmonia Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan
STRAUSS
Also sprach Zarathustra
MOZART
Sinfonia Concertante, K.297b
(Recorded at the Salzburg Festival, August 1970)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No.4 in B flat, Op.60
STRAUSS
Ein Heldenleben – Sinfonische Dichtung, Op.40
Leon Spierer
Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan
BEETHOVEN
Missa solemnis
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf talks about the recording, Karajan rehearses
Beethoven’s Missa solemnis
MOZART
Symphony No.38, K.504 ‘Prague’
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Christa Ludwig
Nicolai Gedda, Nicola Zaccaria
Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna,
Philharmonia Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan
A PDF of the sung text can be downloaded from the download section at the top of the Homepage page.