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French Church Music
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Troisieme leçon de ténèbres
VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE directed by ROGER BLANCHARD Delalande Te Deum HEATHER HARPER (Soprano)
EILEEN MCI.OUGHLIN (soprano)
JOHN WHITWORTH (counter-ten) 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. This week's guest is Sir Robert Mayer , who at 10.0' will be talking about his former teacher, ARTUR SCHNABEL , and, in particular, his playing of Schubert's B fiat sonata ID 960)
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
A magazine programme presented by Stephen Walsh
Fanfares royales: CHARLES CUDWORTH discusses French court music
Constant Lambert: Music Weekly reviews a new book and presents reminiscences of the composer
The Symphonic Poem: HUGH MACDONALD talks about the rise and fall, and literary inspiration behind this 19th-century form
Editor KEITH HORNER
A concert given on 23 May in the Grosser Konzerthaussaal as part of the Vienna Festival JANE MANNING (soprano) GEZA ANDA (piano)
COLIN BRADBURY (bass-clar) DONALD WATSON (bass-clar)
ANTHONY JENNINGS (bass-clar) JAMES HOLLAND (percussion) HOWARD SHELLEY (piano)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conductor PIERRE BOULEZ Part 1
Mozart Symphony No 36, in C major (Linzi (K 425)
Birtwistle Nenia on the Death of Orpheus
12.30* Manuel de Falla on Debussy
Debussy spent only one day In Spain, watching a bull-fight at San Sebastian: yet his Spanish works revealed things in the spirit of Spain's music that even Falla - born and bred in Andalusia - failed to discern. ROBIN HOLMES reads from an appreciation Falla wrote in 1920.
12.35* BBC SO Abroad: part 2 Debussy Iberia (Images)
Bartok Piano Concerto No 2
Professor
Bernard Crick on some things we say and write.
JOHN ALLOtS CHOIR conductor JOHN ALLDIS Richard Rodney Bennett Two
Madrigals: Still to be neat; The hour-glass
Roger Smalley The crystal cabinet
Harrison Birtwistle Narration: Description of the passing of a year
Lennox Berkeley The wind-hover
Hugh Wood Three Choruses: The hawk in the rain; Sirens; All we
Alexander Goehr A Little Cantata of Proverbs
(A prize-winner at the 1972 Brno Competition for music programmes on radio)
Mozart Overture: La clemenza di Tito
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER
2.26* Dvorak Romance for violin and orchestra
ISAAC STERN
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANVY
2.48* Sibelius Tone Poem: En Saga
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTAL DORATI gramophone records
Radu Lupu (piano)
Part 1
Haydn Variations in F minor
Schumann Sonata in F sharp minor, Op 11
by Sheldon Williams
An international exhibition of paintings and sculpture opens in the Croatian capital of Zagreb tomorrow, the second to take place in that city. It will present artists from all over the world who are variously described as naive, primitive, phantasist or folklorique Sheldon Williams, art critic and author of Voodoo and the Art of Haiti, has been closely associated with this particular kind of art for several years.
Part 2 Schubert
Sonata in G major (D 894)
Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest. (Rptd: Monday, 9.35 am)
A selection of his poems, chosen and produced by TERENCE TILLER Readers:
GRETTA GOURIET. DAVID DAVIS and DAVID LLOYD JAMES followed by an interlude
Verdi: Requiem Mass
JESSYE NORMAN (soprano)
ANNA REYNOLDS (Contralto)
VERIANO LUCHETTI (tenor)
RONALDO GIAIOTTI (bass)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
AND CHORUS leader JOHN BROWN conducted by RICCARDO MUTI direct from the Colston Hall. Bristol
by GUNTER GRASS
A play for radio from RALPH MANHE :IM's English version of the novel and from the German of Grass's play, Davor
Adapted and produced by CHRISTOPHER HOLME t followed by an interlude
Opera in two parts
Libretto by PAUL CLAUDEL
Music by Darius Milhaud (sung in French)
Presented by the European Broadcasting Union
This spectacular dramatisation of the story of Columbus caused a major sensation at its 1930 premiere under Kleiber in Berlin, with 20 curtain calls for each half, but with riots in the theatre.
Cast:
Sailors' delegate
GEORGES CENICOT (spoken role)
Other parts played by SIMONE HEYVAERTS (soprano) LIEVE, JANSENS (contralto) GUY VERMANDERE (tenor) LUDOVIC de SAN (baritone) HUGO SMEKENS (bass)
CHORUS OF THE FRENCH RADIO chorus-master MARCEL COURAUD
CHORUS OF THE BELGIAN RADIO chorus-masters vie NEES and ARMAND METZ
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF THE BELGIAN RADIO conducted by LEONCE GRAS
Sound engineer JAN SEGERS
Production organised by HERIBERT DE CALUWE (BRT) and directed by LIONEL SALTER (BBC)
Part 1
10.15* A Stormy Evening at the Linden Opera House
A talk by LEO KARL GERHARTZ , read by JULIAN BUDDEN
10.25* Christophe Colomb Part 2
Trio-Sonata in G major (GHS Op 5 No 4)
MEMBERS OF THE FIGARO ENSEMBLE t John Tunnell (violin)
Jose-Luis Garcia (violin) Charles Tunnell (cello)
Harold Lester (harpsichord)
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