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French Church Music
Charpentier Grand Magnificat SOLOISTS. CHOIR OF THE
JEUNESSES MUSICALES DE FRANCE
JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD ORCHESTRA conducted by louis
MARTINI Delalande Deuxieme Fantaisle ou Caprice que le Roy demandoit souvent
JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD
Campra Psalm 47: Omnes gentes plaudite (mono)
SOLOISTS. PHILIPPE CAILLARD and STEPHANE CAILLAT CHOIRS
JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FREMAUX gramophone records

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Humphrey Burton presents listeners' record requests by telephone. This week's guest is Richard Lewis , who at 10.0* discusses the role of Gerontius in Elgar's oratorio
Telephone [number removed]with your request between 8.0 am and
10.30 today or send details on a postcard, with your name, telephone number, and reason for choice

Presented by Stephen Walsh
PETER LE HURAY discusses the liturgical aspect of Bach's music
ROSAMOND MCGUINNESS takes a historical look at the role of the Master of the Queen's Musick, and talks to SIR ARTHUR BLISS , now in his 20th year in the appointment
GOTTFRIED VON EINEM talks about his music (' I hate that word modern music ... I write what I like ') and introduces his opera The Visit of the Old Lady, to be broadcast from Glyndebourne next Saturday
Editor KEITH HORNER

A concert given on 21 May in the Grosser Konzerthaussaal as part of the Vienna Festival FELICITY PALMER (soprano) NORBERT BRAININ (Violin) PETER SCHIDLOF (Viola) DAVID BUTT (flute)
COLIN BRADBURY (clarinet) JOHN WILBRAHAM (trumpet)
JAMES HOLLAND (vibraphone) SIDONIE GOOSSENS (harp) BELA DEKANY (violin)
JOHN COULLING (viola) ALAN DALZIEL (cello)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leaders ELI GOREN and BELA DEKANY conductor PIERRE boulez Part 1 Mozart
Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, for violin, viola and orchestra (K 364)
Concert Aria: Bella mia fiamma (K 528)
11.30* Bartok and The Theatre MALCOLM RAYMENT talks about Bartok's three stage works.
12.45* BBC SO Abroad
Part 2 Bartok Ballet: The Miraculous Mandarin

with Professor Bernard Crick (Rptd: Wednesday, 11.40 am)

Part 3 Boulez
.... explosante-fixe
In memoriam Stravinsky

(Rptd: Tuesday, 3.25 pm)

Mireille
Opera in five acts
Libretto by MICHEL CARR É, after the poem by FRÉDÉRIC mistral Music by Gounod (sung in French)
A Romeo-and-Jullet story set among the peasants of Provence.
OPERA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA of FRENCH RADIO conducted by JEAN PERISSON (French Radio recording) Acts 1 and 2 3.50* Gounod and Nature
A talk by PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
4.5'The French Opera
Mireille. Acts 3, 4 and I

THEODORE ZELDIN , of St Antony's. Oxford, examines the 19thcentury view that the French were highly cultured but immoral, with help from the writings of Thackeray, Henry James , Malraux and Sartre, and the voices of JAMES JOLL JOHN CROSS, JEAN-MARIE BENOIT

String Quartet In D minor, Op 76 NO 2: JANACEK QUARTET gramophone record

EGIDA GIORDANI-SARTORI (harpsichord)

1891-1940. MICHAEL GLENNT talks about the author of Flight and relates the play to historical events and characters.

Flight
A play in eight dreams by MIKHAIL BULGAKOV translated from the Russian by MICHAEL GLENNY with John Bennett
Peter Woodthorpe , Gary Bond Judy Cornwell , Bryan Prlngla and Jane Wenham
This is a play based on events that occurred in the Bolshevik Revolution and the subsequent plight of certain Russian emigres.
Time: October 1920 to Autumn 1921. Place: Russia, Constantinople and Paris
Golubkov, a student from
Petersburg..............GARY BOND
Seratima, a young lady from
Petersburg .......JUDY CORNWELL
Athanasius. Archbishop of Simferopol......ROLF LEFEBVRE
Charnota, Major-General in the White Army.PETER WOODTHORPE
Paisios, a monk. JOHN FORREST Bayev, a commander of cavalry.......... WILLIAM EEDLE
Lyuska, Charnota's mistress
JANE WENHAM
Krapelin, an orderly
JOHN BADDELEY de Brisard, a White commander............. BRIAN HAINES
General Roman Khludov
JOHN BENNETT
Golovan, Khludov's aide-de- camp ROBIN BROWNE
Stationmaster.....LEWIS STRINGER Paramon Korzukhin. Seraflma's husband... BRYAN PRINGLE
Commander-in-Chief of the White Russian Army
GEOFFREY WINCOTT
Tikhii, Chief of counter-intelligence HAYDN JONES
Gurin.................JONATHAN SCOTT Skunsky...............NIGEL GRAHAM Maria...................DIANA OLSSON Yanko Yankovitch , the Cockroach King JOHN BADDELEY
Narrator.............ROLF LEFEBVRE Accordionist GERALD CROSSMAN Adapted and produced by JOHN TYDKMAN
(Gary Bond is in ' Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat ' at the Albery Theatre: Peter Woodthorpe in ' A Doll's House ' at the Criterion Theatre; Jane Wenham in ' Crown Matrimonial ' at the Haymarket Theatre, London)

JANET PRICE (soprano) PAUL DUTTON (treble)
LEEDS PHILHARMONIC CHORUS
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA leader CLIFFORD KNOWLES conducted by DONALD HUNT Part 1
Parry Blest pair of sirens
Hunt Te Deum (first broadcast performance)

Pianist JOYCE RATHBONE talks about Arrogance or Humility in the Performing Musician

Part 2 Rawsthorne Carmen Vitale
(A public concert given in Leeds Town Hall in Nov 1971)

Poems by Alexander Pope
PHILIP HOBSBAUM introduces a selection of verse which aims to demonstrate Pope's quality as a poet. in his character sketches of, among others, Macer, Atossa and Sporus The poems are read by JILL BAICON . and GARY WATSON Producer GEORGE MACBETH followed by an interlude

(piano)
Bartok Dance. Suite
Chopin Nocturnes: c sharp minor. Op posth; E, Op 62 No 2; Balade in F minor

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