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French Church Music
Charles Piroye Dialogue PIERRE FROIDEBISE (organ)
Charpentier Histoire sacrée: Le Reniement de Saint Pierre (St Peter 's denial)
SOLOISTS, PHILIPPECAILLARD CHORUS ROBERT VEYRON-LACROIX (harpsichord) directed by PHILIPPE CAILLARD
Marchand Dialogue sur les grands jeux: PIERRE FROIDEBISE Campra Psalm 130: De profundis (mono)
SOLOISTS, PHILIPPE CAILLARD AND STEPHANE CAILLAT CHOIRS JEAN-FRANQOIS PAILLARD CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FRÉMAUX gramophone records
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Denis Matthews presents listeners' record requests, and discusses with them, by telephone, some of the ideas behind their choice. This week's guest:
Joseph Cooper , who will call at 10.0* to discuss EMIL GILELS 'S interpretation of Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata
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 WIA 4WW
Presented by Dominic Gill
Music Weekly investigates the LONDON SINFONIETTA and its pioneering work on behalf of contemporary music, with comments from DAVID ATHERTON and KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
Proms open at Covent Garden this week: STEPHEN WALSH looks at the increasing informal appearance of our concerts and opera
' I am terrified that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record for ever.' (Sir Arthur Sullivan , 1888): JERROLD NORTHROP MOORE introduces rare cylinder recordings Editor KEITH HORNER
led by MAURICE BRETT conducted by RUDOLF SCHWARE Haydn Symphony No 52 Brahms Serenade No 1
with Marghanita Laski
Young Performer Recital ANGELA MALSBDRY (clarinet) DAVID PETTIT (piano) Martinu Sonatina
Schmitt Andantino, Op SO No 1 Benjamin Le tombeau de Ravel Berg Four Pieces. Op 5
Brahms Sonata in E flat, Op 120 No 2
St Matthew Passion PETER PEARS (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) HEINRICH SCHUTZ CHOIR director ROGER NORRINGTON
Introducing tonight's opening programme of a series including all of Mozart's mature trios. Hans Keller discusses their neglect and their greatness. He suggests that Mozart was perhaps the only composer without textural problems in a genre that has always been problematical.
Radio play by LOUIS MACNEICE MUSiC bv WILLIAM WALTON with Laurence Olivier
(pictured above in 1942) and Margaret Rawlings
First broadcast on 12 October 1942 to mark the 450th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World
Walton's score for the film of Henry V has become a classic. But the score for this production, together with that of Macbeth, is among the least known of all his dramatic works.
BBC chorus chorus-master LESLIE WOODGATE GEORGE ELLIOTT (guitar)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader PAUL BEARD conductor SIR Adrian BOULT Producer DALLAS BOWER Act 1
5.10* Admiral of the Ocean Sea DALLAS BOWER talks about Columbus as man and navigator, and draws attention to some music inspired by his achievements.
5.30* Christopher Columbus Act 2
with Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Monday, 9.50 am)
Apergus désagréables La belle excentrique FRANCIS poulenc and JACQUES FÉVRiER (pianos): record followed by an interlude
Tragic opera in three acts Libretto by GAETANO ROSSI Music by Donizetti
(sung in Italian)(first broadcast performance in this country) direct from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Promised marriage by Don Pedro, Maria is thought to be living in sin. The shame of it drives her father mad. Happily the prince is a man of his word....
OPERA RARA CHORUS chorus-master
GEOFFREY MITCHELL BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA leader Richard LAYTON conducted by KENNETH MONTGOMERY
The action takes place in Castile towards the end of the 14th century. Act 1
Part 1 by W. H. AUDEN , WILLIAM PLOMER JENI COUZYN. ROGER MCGOUGH and BRIAN PATTEN
Introduced by GEORGE MACBETH
Act 2
Part 2 by JOHN WAIN , JON SII.KIN
ANTHONY THWAITE , PETER PORTER
Act 3
Professor Dennis Meadows , Dartmouth University. usa, co-author of The Limits to Growth in discussion with Professor Wilfred Beckerman , University College, London, member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, about the concept of using a computerised world model to determine the limits to continued economic growth.
Chaired by Michael Peacock Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT X followed by an interlude
The first of seven programmes containing all of Mozart's mature works in this medium as well as some of the trio master-pieces of the 19th century.
Mozart Trio in b flat (K 254)
Mendelssohn Trio in D minor, Op 49
GYORGY PAUK (violin)
RALPH KIRSHBAUM (Cello) PETER FRANKI. (piano)
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