French Church Music
Henry du Mont Benedictus SOLOISTS, PHILIPPE CAILLARD
VOCAL ENSEMBLE, JEAN-FRANÇOIS PAILLARD CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FRÉMAUX
Charpentier Concert pour quatre parties (mono)
ENSEMBLE INSTRUMENTAL DE TOURS directed by ANDRÉE COLSON Lully Dies Irae (mono)
SOLOISTS, CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA OF THE CONCERTS LAMOUREUX conducted by MARCEL COURAUD gramophone records
Denis Matthews presents listeners' requests, and discusses with them, by telephone, some of the ideas behind their choice.
This week's guest is
Sir Arthur Bliss who, at 10.9* will introduce his Song-cycle: A Knot of Riddles, recorded by JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK and the LONDON CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by WYN MORRIS
Listeners can take part in the programme by telephoning [number removed]with their request, at any time today from 8.0 am until the end of the programme, or by sending details on a postcard, with their name and telephone number to Your Concert Choice, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
A magazine programme of news and views presented by Dominic Gill
Sergei Rachmaninov : He was an extremely warm person - (Eugene Ormandy ) ' ... a six-and-a-half-foot-tall scowl' (Stravinsky). A centenary tribute to the Russian pianist and composer with reminiscences from EUGENE ORMANDY , ALFRED SWAN and ALEXANDER TCHEREPN IN
VAT increases the price of your ticket from today: NOËL GOODWIN investigates; lord HARE-WOOD and JOHN DENISON comment
The first Western symphony orchestra in China: news of the LPO's recent tour Editor KEITH HORNER
Symphony No 3, in A minor PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
12.25 Etudes tableaux, Op 39: No 8, in D minor: No 6, in A minor; No 9, in c minor VALERIE TRYON (piano)
12.401 Choral Symphony: The Bells (mono)
FRANCES YEEND (soprano) DAVID LLOYD (tenor)
MACK HARRELL (baritone) TEMPLE UNIVERSITY CHOIR
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY gramophone records
A programme of rare comic and more serious works
Devised by Humphrey Searle Presented by Clement Freud LAURA SARTI (soprano)
EILEEN SHAW (mezzo-soprano) GERALD ENGLISH (tenor) JOHN GIBBS (baritone)
PATRICK HALLING (violin) JOHN IVESON (trombone) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
HUBERT DAWKES (harmonium, organ, harpsichord, piano) BBC CHORUS
MEMBERS OF SINFONIA OF LONDON conducted by ADRIAN SUNSHINE
Included are works by Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Edward Lear , William Herschel , Albert, Prince Consort, Faure, Messager and Samuel Butler Part 1
with Marghanita Laskl
Part 2
(Given before an invited audtence in the BBC's Maida Vale Studios on 19 December 1972) Producer ANTHONY FRIESE-GREENE
APRIL CANTELO (soprano) JENNIFER CAWS (oboe)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN direct from the City Hall Part 1 Bach
Suite No 3. in D
3.23* Cantata No 202 (Wedding Cantata)
A Critic's Reply
Jeremy Noble considers some of the issues that have arisen in the series
Part 2
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3, In G
4.22* Stravinsky Symphony in c
with Antony Hopkins
An opera in one act
Libretto by ERNST VON WOLZOGEN Music by Richard Strauss (sung in German)
Diemut entices Kunrad to her room by means of a basket on a rope, but spitefully leaves him suspended because he has already kissed her. All the town lights go out and are only restored after she has yielded her ' Lirum Larum Lei,' as they call it!
Elsbeth ELISABETH EBERT
(mezzo-soprano)
WigeliS MARIE-THERESE
ESCRIBANO (contralto)
Jorg Poschel , the innkeeper
OTTOKAR SCHOFER (bass)
Kunz Gilgenstock , the baker and brewer
ALOIS PERNERSTORFER (bass)
Hamerlein. the haberdasher
HANS BRAUN (baritone)
Ortlieb Tulbeck , the cooper
ERICH MAJKUT (tenor)
Ursula, his wife
SONJA DRAKSLER (contralto)
Kofel, the smith
FRANZ FUCHS (baSS)
Kunrad., HEINZ FRIEDRICH (bar) Ruger Aspeck , the potter
JON DACIAN (tenor)
Walpurg, his wife
EVA MARIA GROSSMANN (soprano) SchweikervonGundelfingen.the bailiff ... GERHARD STOLZE (tenor)
BOYS' CHOIR FROM THE VIENNA WOODS
VIENNA RADIO CHORUS AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTR.A, conducted by ERNST MARZENDORFER
(Austrian Radio recording)
DR RONALD CLOTHIER , Lecturer in Environmental Studies at Northbrook College, raises some unexpected questions and points out that they are not unanswerable.
from the Queen Elizabeth Hall Part 1
Haydn Quartet in G, Op 77 No 1 Smetana Quartet No 1, in E minor (From my life)
8.15* Martin Lovett , the cellist of the Amadeus, talks to MICHAEL OLIVER
8.35* Concert: part 2 Beethoven Quartet in E flat, Op 74
by AUGUST STRINDBERG translated by MICHAEL MEYER with Alan Dobie , Lee Montague Clive Morton , Kate Binchy
Erik is King of Sweden. A mentally unstable man, he has in 1566 become involved in a bitter, jealous feud with the Swedish nobility. Step-brothers to the King:
Producer MARTIN JENKINS
This British premiere 'received a most vivid production and there were solid, deep-felt, hard-edged performances from Alan Dobie as the King and Lee Montague as Göran' (THE TIMES)
Preludes. Op 23
PETER KATIN (piano): records (9 April: Preludes, Op 32)
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