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Marchand Rfcit et plein jeu In D: PIERRE FROIDEBISE (organ) Gilles Requiem
NADINE SAUTEREAU (soprano) ANDRE MALLABRERA (tenor) RÉMY CORAZZA (tenor) XAVIER DEPRAZ (bass)
PHILIPPE CAILLARD CHORUS
JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FRÉMAUX gramophone records
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Denis Matthews presents listeners' record requests, and discusses, by telephone, the ideas behind their choice. This week's guest is
James Blades , who at 10.0* introduces Mozart's Serenade in D (Serenata notturna) (K 239)
A magazine programme presented by Stephen Walsh
JOHN OGDON looks at the history of virtuoso piano music
After the new Royal Opera House production of Britten's Ou'en Wingrave, ANTHONY BESCH , DAVID CAIRNS and HUMPHREY SEARLE comment, and discuss the presentation of contemporary and traditional opera
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK talks about his singing career
Editor KEITH HORNER
David Mason (trumpet)
Felicity Palmer (soprano) Maureen Lehane (contralto) Alexander Young (tenor) Benjamin Luxon (baritone) BBC Chorus
New Philharmonia Orchestra, leader Desmond Bradley
Conducted by Charles Mackerras
Trumpet Concerto in E flat
Orfeo ed Euridice, Act 4
12.30* Harold Truscott talks about Haydn's life, work and travels during the 1790s.
12.45* Proms 72 Haydn, part 2
Symphony No 93, in D
Mass in B flat (Theresienmesse)
(A 1972 Promenade Concert)
(Stereo)
Professor Bernard Crick reflects on some of the things we say and write and on the raw material we use to make them.
(Rptd: Wednesday, 11.35 am)
Music by the Greek composer and violinist
Nikes Skalkottas , 1904-1949 Sonata for violin
Andante and Scherzo (Four Duets for violin and cello)
Little Suite No 2, for violin and piano
MANOUG PARISIAN (violin) AMARYLLIS FLEMING (cello) ERNEST LUSH (piano)
Chopin, played by Daniel Barenboim (piano) from The Dome Part 1
Fantaisie in F minor; A Nocturne; Sonata in B flat minor
3.50* Reminiscences of Chopin and Liszt by SIR CHARLES BALLa read by ROBIN HOLMES
4.5* Brighton Festival Chopin, part 2
Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat: Berceuse in D flat; Barcarolle
With examinations looming closer Antony Hopkins discusses today the whole question of 0- and A-Level music exams, using as an illustration the Piano Concerto No 2. in B flat, by Brahms. gramophone records
(Rptd: Monday, 9.45 am)
George Ball , former United States Under-Secretary of State, talks about his country's reactions to some of the issues arising out of the enlargement of the European Economic Community.
This recording was made by Radio Hilversum at the recent Europe/America Conference in Amsterdam
Introduced by CHRISTOPHER SERPELL followed by an interlude
direct from Accademla Santa Cecilia, Rome
DAVID BUTT (flute)
COLIN BRADBURY (clarinet) JOHN WILBRAHAM (trumpet)
JAMES HOLLAND (vibraphone) SIDONIE GOOSSENS (harp) BELA DEKANY (violin) JOHN COULING (viola) ALAN DALZIEI. (cello)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leaders ELl GOREN and BELA DEKANY ' conductor PIERRE BOULEZ
Part Boulez .... explosantefixe ... '- In memoriam Stravinsky (European premiere of revised version)
6.35* Letter from Rome
PETER NICHOLS, for 15 years The Times correspondent in Italy, has just received the Rome Prize for outstanding reporting of events in the city.
6.55* BBC SO Abroad, part 2
Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales
Bartok Ballet: The Miraculous Mandarin
Le Prophete
Grand opera in five acts Libretto by EUGENE scribe Music by Meyerbeer (sung in French)
(first broadcast in this country) Le Prophete was instantly successful in its day, with 100 performances in 15 different countries within two years. Its tuneful ballet music is best known in Les Patineurs. The central role, unusually, is for a contralto, here sung by Marilyn Home .
BOYS OF THE ORATORIO DELL'IMMA-
COLATA DI BERGAMO TURIN RADIO CHORUS
BAND OF THE TURIN CARABINIERI TURIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by HENRY LEWIS (Italian Radio recording) Acts 1 and 2 9.5* Franconi's Circus People: Notes on Grand Opera and Giacomo Meyerbeer
A talk by MAX LOPPERT
S.25* Le Prophete, Act 3
PETER BURKE of Sussex University talks about comparative history, a tradition that goes back to Plutarch. He takes the examples of the two powerful seafaring communities of Amsterdam and Venice in the 17th century.
Act 4
A selection of poems by PATRIC DICKINSON
Readers MICHAEL HARBOUR
JANE KNOWLES , JOHN RUDDOCK Narrated and produced by R. D. SMITH
Act 5
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