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Choir Works

on BBC Radio 3

Jeremy Summerly is joined by Richard Langham Smith to introduce the final choral works to be composed by Poulenc and Hindmith, before their deaths in 1963. The programme concludes with Alfred Desenclos 's setting of the Requiem, also written in 1963. Despite a considerable list of works, Desenclos remains relatively unknown among the French composers of his generation. Poulenc Sept Repons des Tenebres The Sixteen, BBC Philharmonic, conductor Harry Christophers Hindemith Mass
Danish National Radio Choir, conductor Uwe Gronostay Desenclos Requiem
BBC Singers, Margaret Phillips
(organ), conductor Stephen Cleobury Producer Andrew Mussett

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Summerly
Unknown:
Richard Langham Smith
Unknown:
Alfred Desenclos
Conductor:
Uwe Gronostay
Conductor:
Desenclos Requiem
Singers:
Margaret Phillips
Conductor:
Stephen Cleobury
Producer:
Andrew Mussett

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