Sutton Place

Sunday, 4 May 1986, 3.00pm

“The Menagerie”

Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Julius Drake (piano)
with special guest John Julius Norwich (Viscount Norwich)

Sutton Place, near Guildford, Surrey

Lewis Carroll: The Wasp in a Wig
Britten: The Wasp
Sir John Lubbock: The Flapping of a Fly’s Wing
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Flight of the Bumblebee

TP Cameron Wilson: The Magpies in Piccardy
Rameau: The Call of the Birds
DH Lawrence: Snake
Rimsky-Korsakov: Hymn to the Sun (from Le Coq D’or)

Hilaire Beloc: The Bear
Hilaire Beloc: The Dynotherium
Geoffrey Twigg: The Chicken
Geoffrey Twigg: The Duck

Daniel Chua: Fish in Water
Saint-Saens: The Swan
AC Hilton: Octopus
‘Fats’Waller: The Alligator Rag

Interval

Kenneth Graham: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (from Wind in the Willows)
Benjamin Britten: Pan

Lewis Carroll / AC Mackenzie: Jaberwocky

From a letter to the Times: The Cuckoo
Benjamin Britten: The Cuckoo
From a letter to the Times: The Cuckoo

Ibert: The Little White Donkey
GK Chesterton: The Donkey
Richard Hademan: The Donkey

Roald Dahl: The Three Little Pigs
Traditional: The Pig

Rameau: Le Rossignol en Amour
Sherwin: A Nightingale Sang

The Menagerie

The Menagerie was created to prove that good music is, above all, inspiring entertainment.Percell to Poulenc, Schubert to Fats Waller, a programme is compiled of the many creatures that have inspired composers, and with a compliment of apt readings. The Menagerie makes a wonderfully diverse collection, from the serious to the lighthearted, the witty to the wistful.