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This month: JACQUELINE DELMAN Soprano

MY FINEST MOMENT

Handel L’Allegro ed il Penseroso Jacqueline Delman (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor) et al; Philomusica of London/David Willcocks L’Oiseau-Lyre SOL-600-25-6 (1961)

with David Willcocks was a fantastic recording from fairly early in my career – the early 1960s. The other artists included Peter Pears, Elsie Morison and Hervey Allen. I’d worked with Hervey a lot, but I hadn’t worked with Peter before; he was

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