The Saloon, Kimbolton Castle, Cambridgeshire

27 April 1986

The Menagerie

Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Julius Drake (piano)
with guest John Hancorn (baritone)

Thomas Arne: Where the Bee Sucks
Michael Tippett: Where the Bee Sucks
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Flight of the Bumble Bee
Beethoven: Song of the Flea

Benjamin Britten: Cuckoo
Benjamin Britten: A Song of Enchantment
Vaughan Williams: Searching for Lambs
Schubert: Die Sterne

Anon: On Hunting
Benjamin Britten: Tit for Tat
Tchaikovsky: The Canary

R. Rodney Bennett: Let’s Go and Live in the Country
Geoffrey Twigg: The Chicken : The Duck
Benjamin Britten: The Ploughboy
Ibert: The Little Donkey
Schubert: Auf der Bruck
Frank Loesser: I Got the Horse Right Here

Interval

Mozart: The Bird-Catcher am I
Benjamin Britten: Pan

Schubert: Das Fischermädchen
Poulenc: L’Anguille
Daniel Chua: Fish in Water
Saint-Saens: The Swan

Flanders/Swann: The Warthog
Roald Dahl: The Three Little Pigs

Fauré: En Sourdine
Saint-Saens: The Nightingale
Sherwin: ‘And a Nightingale Sang’