Performers in the series

Below are listed all the performers who took part in the making of the Howard Goodall Story of Music.

Orchestra at beginning of every episode:

STRINGS

The Tippett Quartet: John Mills, Jeremy Isaac, Julia O’Riordan, Bozidar Vukotic

Patrick Savage, Jonathan Hill, Natalia Bonner, Shelley Britton, Kathryn James, Ben Buckton, Julian Leaper, Nichole Wilson, Bea Chappell, Richard George, William Melvin, Daisy Fancourt, Maxine Moore, Vicci Wardman, Ian Anderson, Ben Chappell, Christoper Terepin, Leo Melvin, Tim Coombes, Millie Fancourt, Mary Scully, Jo Nichols

Harpsichord: Iaian Farrington

Flutes – Becky Larson, Sophie Johnson

Oboes – David Theodore, Jane Marshall

Bassoons – Gavin McNaughton, Paul Boyes

Horns – Richard Watkins, Elise Campbell

 

Episode 1

Choral singers  – Amy Wood, Eloise Irving, Emilia Hughes, Suzzie Vango, Catherine Pope, Matthew Venner, Christopher Lowrey, Ronan Busfield, Oliver Jones, Simon Whiteley, Johnny Herford, Lance Nomura

Hurdy-Gurdy player:  Clare Salaman

Cittern Player – Dante Ferrera

Troubador (not in vision) – Giles Lewin

Lur Players – Jan Brathe and Ann-Marie Sundberg

 

Episode 2

Harpsichord (hands) – Laura Tiverdale

Baroque Violin – Anne-Marie Christiansen

Purcell Evening Hymn  – Sacconi Quartet, Harpsichord – Christopher Bucknell, Tenor Noah Stewart

Vivaldi Seasons– Violin Soloist – Nicola Benedetti

Bach Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring – Soloist – Rachel Major

London’s Burning – Children of Maria Fidelis Convent School
Handel ‘Solomon’, Will the sun forget to streak? – Soloist – Elin Manahan Thomas

Episode 3

Dusssek, Beethoven – Pianist – Nino Gvetadze

Status Quo arrangement – Sacconi Quartet, Soprano – Rebecca Jane Lea

Mozart Dove sono – Soprano soloist – Meeta Ravel

Schubert Abendstern – Tenor soloist – Nathan Vale

Chopin – Pianist – Emmanuel Fleurot

 

Episode 4

Debussy – Pianist – Emmanuel Fleurot

Liszt Gardens of the Villa d’Este – Pianist – Daisy Fancourt

Liszt Chromatic Galop – Pianist – Iain Farrington

 

Episode 5

Debussy Pagodes – Pianist – Daisy Fancourt

Debussy Voiles – Pianist – Nino Gvetadze

Spiritual – Maria Fiedlis Convent School Gospel Choir, Soloist – Rainah Reid

 

Episode 6

Mackie Messer (Kurt Weill) – Soloist – Emma Williams