Performance on 3 - BBC CO - Weill

Presented by Catherine Bott. In a concert given at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, members of the BBC Concert Orchestra and soloist perform Lost in the Stars, Kurt Weill's last stage work. Completed in 1949, it is a musical which aspires to the condition of serious opera. It was based on the famous novel by Alan Paton, Cry, The Beloved Country, a dramatic tale of social struggles in South Africa in the years before apartheid. Weill: Lost in the Stars Book and Lyrics by Maxwell Anderson Stephen Kumalo ...... Clive Rowe Irina ...... Tsakane Maswanganyi Linda ...... Josie Benson Absalom Kumalo ...... Cornelius Macarthy John Kumalo ...... Cavin Cornwall Grace Kumalo ...... Angela Caesar James Jarvis ...... Edward Petherbridge The Judge ...... Tony Timberlake Edward Jarvis ...... Hugh Beckwith Alex ...... Khai Shaw Members of the BBC Concert Orchestra Charles Hazlewood (conductor) Jude Kelly (director).