The Fairy-Queen, Blow's Venus and Adonis, Handel's Semele, Sosarme, Monteverdi's Vespers, Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie, and several sets of operatic excerpts and orchestral and choral music of the 17th- and 18th-centuries. References 1915 births 1983 deaths 20th-century British conductors (music) 20th-century English composers Academics of the Royal Academy of Music Academics of the University of Birmingham Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Composers awarded knighthoods Conductors (music) awarded knighthoods English conductors (music) British male conductors (music) Knights Bachelor People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire 20th-century British male musicians British Army personnel of World War II Handel scholars BBC radio producers Presidents of the Independent Society of Musicians BBC Radio 3