Performance on 3 - 14/11/2007

Petroc Trelawny presents a specially-recorded concert performance of Elgar's delightful incidental music for the play The Starlight Express. Written during the horrors of the First World War, the drama follows a group of children whose magical 'starlight' quality has been lost by the adults around them. Elgar: The Starlight Express Elizabeth Atherton (soprano) Mark Stone (baritone) Simon Callow (narrator) BBC Concert Orchestra Barry Wordsworth (conductor) Kenneth Richardson (director).