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Elizabethan Years

on BBC Radio 3

In the second part of this month's programme on Academic Life Wilfrid Mellers, Professor of Music at York University, discusses the aims and achievements of his revolutionary attitude towards higher musical education. The programme is illustrated by =reference to music made in his own faculty, including Bach's B minor Mass, an electronic composition by Trevor Wishart , Shostakovich played by the FITZWILLIAM QUARTET, Haydn played by the MEDICI QUARTET, and Wilfrid Mellers' own Cloud Canticle sung by the YORK UNIVERSITY CHAMBER CHOIR. Producer CLIVE BENNETT
followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Trevor Wishart
Producer:
Clive Bennett

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