Wigmore Hall, London

Sunday, 17 May 1987, 11.30am

The Menagerie

Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Julius Drake (piano)
with guests Penelope Walker (soprano) & Richard Baker (narrator)

Coventry Patmore: T’was when the sporsal time of May
Handel: Spring (’La Sperenza e giunta’ from Otho)

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

Victor Hely-Hutchinson (with apologies to GFH): Old Mother Hubbard

DH Lawrence: Humming Bird
Chaussan (de Lisle): Le Colibri

Stravinsky: Pastorale (1908)
Stravinsky: Berceuse (from The Firebird)
Copland (traditional): Little Horses
Bridge (Mary Coleridge): Love went A-Riding

Pierre Daninos: Major Thomson lives in France (extract)
Geoffrey Twigg: The Chickens / The Duck
James Thurber: The Little Girl and the Wolf
Cole Porter: Wow-ooh-Wolf

Paul Barker (Browning): The Pied Piper of Hamelin