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French Church Music Bernier Jubilate Deo
ANA-MARIA MIRANDA (soprano) FONTAINEBLEAU CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA, conducted by JEAN-JACQUES WERNER
Louis Couperin Chaconne in D; Chaconne in G
PIERRE FROIDEBISE (organ)
Delalande Confitemini Domino HEATHER HARPER (SOpranO)
EILEEN MCLOUGHLIN (soprano)
JOHN WHITWORTH (counter-tenor) LESLIE FYSON (tenor) JAMES ATKINS (baSS) ST ANTHONY SINGERS
BOYD NEEL ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTONY HOPKINS gramophone records
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Humphrey Burton presents listeners' record requests by telephone
Take part in the programme by telephoning [number removed]with your request between 8.0 am and 9.45 today or by sending details on a postcard, with your name, telephone number and reason for choice
Presented by Stephen Walsh
The Earliest Operas: DENIS ARNOLD outlines the early 17th-century Italian forms of academic, court and madrigal opera, and religious drama
SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT : Music Weekly talks to the composer about his music and his new piano sonata (to be broadcast from Bath next Saturday)
Franck and Tchaikovsky: two new guides reviewed by PETER DICKINSON
Editor KEITH HORNER
The opening concert of the Vienna Festival direct from Grosser Konzerthaussaal FELICITY PALMER (soprano) GEZA ANDA (piano)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conductor PIERRE BOULEZ Part 1
Messiaen Poèmes pour Mi
Mozart Piano Concerto No 18, in B flat (K 456)
12.5* Around The Ring
JOHN HICGINS looks at the arts in Vienna in and out of Festival time.
12.25* BBC Symphony Orchestra Abroad Part 2 Bartok
Concerto for Orchestra
Professor Bernard Crick reflects on some of the things we say and write
(Rptd: Wednesday, 11.55 am)
GYORGY PAUK (violin)
PETER FRANKL (piano)
Mozart Sonata in B flat (K 454) Brahms Sonata in G, Op 78
Opera in three acts Music by Vivaldi
Libretto by SCIPIONE MAFFEI (sung in Italian)
(gramophone records)
Set on the Aegean island of Naxos, the story concerns itself with mistaken identity, tyrannous threats and true love, against a background of pastoral beauty.
MILAN OPERA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFFAEI.LO MONTEROSSO Acts 1 and 2
JOHN HALE , Professor of Italian at University College, London, explains why Renaissance Venice was admired for her political stability and was seen as an exemplary republic,
Act 3
Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest. (Rptd: Monday, 9.50 am)
Symphony No 5, in B flat
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
(Recording made available by courtesy of RIAS, Berlin)
A modern version of Leo Tolstoy's play, in living Irish speech by John McGahern
The action passes in the West of Ireland in the middle of the 20th century
followed by an interlude
Mass: Maria zart SCHOLA POLYPHONICA director HENRY WASHINGTON
Introduced by DAVITT MORONEY
Peter Jay introduces a selection of poems in English and the original classical Greek
The translations are all from his recent book, The Greek Anthology
Poets include: Asklepidaes Kallimachos, Meleager Ptolemaeus and Simonides
Translators include: FLEUR ADCOCK, ROBERT BRIDGES, ALASTAIR ELLIOT, TONY HARRISON, ALAN MARSHFIELD, EDWIN MORGAN, PETER PORTER, EZRA POUND and W.G. SHEPHERD
Readers: HARVEY HALL, TONY HARRISON, PETER JAY and PETER PORTER
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
A series including all of Mozart's works in this medium PETER FRANKL (piano) GYORGY PAUK (violin)
RALPH KIRSHBAUM (Cello)
Mozart Trio in B flat (K 502) Schumann Trio in F, Op 80
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