New End Theatre, Hampstead, London

22 June 1986, 7.30pm

Menagerie

Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Julius Drake (piano)

with their guests…

Melanie Armitstead (soprano) & Leonard Fenton (narrator)

Sir Francis Meynell: Man and Beast
Canteloube: Lo Calhé
Sir John Lubbock: The Flapping of a Fly’s Wing
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Flight of the Bumblebee

From a Letter to The Times: The Cuckoo
Benjamin Britten: Cuckoo
From a Letter to The Times: The Cuckoo
Dougherty: Primavera

Edward Thomas: Adelstrop
Rameau: The Call of the Birds
D.H. Lawrence: Snake
Fauré: En Sourdine

Saint-Saëns: The Swan
Rupert Brooke: Heaven
Schubert: Die Florelle
Andre Jolivet: The Fisherman’s Song
Benjamin Britten: Fish in the Unruffled Lakes
Noel Coward: Any Little Fish

Interval

Offenbach: A Quel Diner
Sidney Smith: On Hunting
Benjamin Britten: Tom Noddy
Tchaikovsky: The Canary
Anon: The Jolly Hunter

Victor Hely-Hutchinson: Forgiven
Lewis Carroll: The Wasp in a Wig
Benjamin Britten: The Wasp

Paul Mounsey: Le Cigale et La Fourmi

T.P. Fletcher: The Pig
Anon: There was a Lady Loved a Swine

Rameau: Le Rossignol en Amour
Benjamin Britten: The Nightingale and the Rose
Keats: From ‘Ode to a Nightingale’