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French Church Music
Lully Motet: Plaude, laetare Gallia: SOLOISTS
ROGER BLANCHARD VOCAL EN SEMBLE ORCHESTRA OF THE SOCIÉTÉ DES CONCERTS DU CONSERVATOIRE conducted by ROGER BLANCHARD Delalande Psalm 130: De profundis: SOLOISTS
LAUSANNE VOCAL AND
INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE conducted by MICHEL CORBOZ gramophone records

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Denis Matthews presents listeners' record requests by telephone. This week's guest is
Owen Brannigan , and at 10.0 he talks about some of the Northumbrian folk songs that have been arranged for him
Listeners can take part in the programmes by telephoning [number removed]with their request between 8.0 am and 10.30 today-or by sending details on a postcard, with their name and telephone number

Presented by Dominic Gill
Music Weekly reviews the musical themes of this year's English Bach Festival, and speaks to musicians involved
JOHN WARRACK argues the case for musicians adopting historically authentic instruments for early 19th-century music. ALAN HACKER puts the performer's point of view.
Hugh MACDONALD talks about Victorian sheet music covers Editor KEITH HORNER

First programme In a series recalling some outstanding concerts in last year's season PETER FRANKL (piano)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader RODNEY FRIEND conductor BERNARD HAITINK
Part 1 Mozart Piano Concerto in F major (K 459)
12.15' Hanslick on Bruckner ROBIN HOLMES reads Hanslick's scathing account, written in 1892, of Bruckner's Eighth Symphony
12.20* Prom: part 2
Bruckner Symphony No 8, In c minor (ed Haas)

with MarghaniU Laski
(Rptd: Wednesday, 10.40 am)

Opera in two acts by Berlioz Libretto by LÉON DE WAILLY and AUGUSTE BARBIER
(sung in French: records)
' In the fantastic field of musIcal art no one can touch his colossal and ever novel ideas. Greatest uniformity, homogeneity, and, in addition, a minute development of all details ... and finally, a stupendous mastery of instrumentation characterise the music of Berlioz.' (GLINKA)
COVENT GARDEN CHORUS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by colin DAVIS Act 1
3.25' Michelangelo Love Sonnets
Cellini's greatest contemporary and the Renaissance artist par excellence was also a passionate poet. Five of his love sonnets, in JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS'S classic translation, are read by DAVID BRIERLEY

with Antony Hopkins
(Rptd: Monday, 9.45 am)

NELL GOTKOVSKY (violin)
Sonata in A minor (bwv 1003) Partita in D minor (bwv 1004)

HENRI APPIA of the Sorbonne reflects on Springtime in Paris. A new government and the industrial boom brought added variety to La Vie Parisienne. (13 May: Letter from Rome)

Quatre pieces breves Tarantelle
MICHELE-ELISE QUERARD (piano) gramophone record

GEORGE MACBETH introduces
The Son of My Skin, a new poem by PETER REDGROVE , read by HUGH DICKSON , FRANCES HORO-VITZ and GARY WATSON and new poems by ROSAMUND BELBEN , JOHN CASSIDY DOUGLAS DUNN. NICKI JACKOWSKA
ERICA JONG , H. B. MAI.LALIEU
LUCIEN STRYK, CHARLES TOMLINSON read by the authors themselves followed by an interlude

in an English Bach Festival concert direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London

French National Radio Orchestra conducted by Jean Martinon Part 1

Ravel Rapsodie espagnole Falla La vida breve. Act 1

8.30 Falla and Spanish Opera
A talk by Frederick Fuller

8.50 Concert: part 2

Falla La vida breve, Act 2

The score which won the 1971 Italia Prize for Radio Music Music and text by Philippe Boesmans
(first broadcast in this country) CLAUDE LOMBARD (SOpranO) HUBERT BIEBAUT (horn)
MUSIQUES NOUVELLES ENSEMBLE conducted by PIERRE BARTHOLOMEE
(Belgian Radio recording)

Artist Descending a Staircase
A new play, specially commissioned for radio by TOM STOPPARD
Three very old artists, who have been friends since early manhood, share an attic. Now one of them is dead. Evidence concerning the manner of his death exists on a tape-recording But what is Truth?
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN

L'ESTRO HARMONICO, AMSTERDAM
Arne Trio-Sonata No 7, for flute. violin and continuo
C. P. E. Bach Trio-Sonata in c major, for flute, violin and continuo (Wq 147)
Couperin Concert Royal No 4
(A concert given in the Purcell Room, London, in 1971)

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