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French Church Music Campra Requiem
EDITH SELIG (soprano)
JOCELYNE CHAMONIN (soprano) ANDRÉ MEURANT (tenor)
JEAN-JACQUES LESHEUR (tenor) GEORGE SABDOl'N (baSS) PHILIPPE CAILLARD and STEPHANE CAILLAT CHOIRS
JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD ORCHESTRA conducted by louis FREMAUX gramophone records

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Denis Matthews presents listeners' record requests and discusses with them the musical reasons behind their choice
This week's guest caller will be Lennox Berkeley, who at
10.0* will be talking about his choice - Mozart's String Quartet in B flat (K 5S9) played by the GUARNERI QUARTET
You can take part in the programme by telephoning [number removed]with your request between 8.0 am and 10.30 today or by sending details on a post-card, with your name, telephone number, and reason for choice

Presented by Stephen Walsh
Otto Klemperer: Music Weekly reviews new conversations with the octogenarian conductor
Scarlatti: HOWARD MAYER BROWN discusses the keyboard music
Havergal Brian: CALUM MACDONALD looks at the music and personality of the late nonagenarian composer Editor KEITH HORNER

KYUNGWHA CHUNG (violin)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader ERICH GRUENBERG conducted by LAWRENCE FOSTER Part 1
Mozart Violin Concerto No 4, in d major (K 218)
Stravinsky 'Symphony No 1, In E flat major

Professor Bernard Crick reflects on some of the things we say and write and on the raw material we use to make them - words.
(Rptd: Wednesday, 12.10 pm)

Brahms Violin Concerto in D major

(A 1972 Promenade Concert)

Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.
(Rptd: Monday, 8.45 am)

by MICHAEL ROLL
Beethoven Sonata In F minor, Op 57 (Appassionata)
Schumann Kreisleriana , Op 16

A grand opera in five acts, after Schiller
Libretto by Joseph Mery and Camille du Locle
Music by Verdi
(sung in French)
First broadcast of original 1867 version including music cut before the first performance and recently re-discovered by Andrew Porter.
The grandest of Verdi's Grand Operas deals with the tragedy of Don Carlos , destroyed by his love for his stepmother (once his betrothed) and his desire to bring freedom to his father's oppressed subjects.

Cast: [see below]
BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra leader Arthur Leavins conducted by John Matheson
Repetiteurs JEFFREY TATE and RICHARD NUNN
Producer JULIAN BUDDEN

The action takes place In France and Spain during the 1560s.

Act 1: The forest of Fontainebleau; Act 2 Sc 1: The cloisters of the monastery of St Just: Sc 2: A pleasant spot 'outside the monastery

4.45* Andrew Porter talks about an important discovery in the Bibliotheque de 1 Opera, Paris.

5.5* Don Carlos
Act 3 Sc 1: The Queen's gardens in Madrid; Sc 2: A public square by Our Lady of Atocha

6.5* 'I am Verdi, You are Wagner'
Franz Werfel, in his novel Verdi, evokes the picture of an encounter between Verdi and Wagner.
Reader Dennis Goacher

6.25* Don Carlos
Act 4 Sc 1: The King's cabinet in Madrid: Sc 2: Carlos' prison in the royal palace; Act 5: The cloisters of the monastery of St Just

followed by an interlude

BBC African Service ran a competition last year for original radio plays written by authors who had been born in Africa.
Martin Esslin, who was one of the judges, discusses the entries with Gwyneth Henderson, the African Service producer who organised the competition, and the programme includes the recorded voices of WOLE SOYINKA and LEWIS NKOSI , the other judges, as well as extracts from four of the short-listed plays:
From the Surrounded Valley by G. ASFAW
Family Spear by ELVANIA ZIRIMU
Sign of the Rainbow by W . OGUNYEMI
The Transistor Radio by K . TSARO-WIWA
The plays which won the first three prizes can be heard tonight at 10.0
Producer CHARLES LEFEAUX

A continuing series of choral and orchestral programmes of British music-of all periods. but most of it of this century THOMAS IGLOI (Cello)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader SYDNEY HUMPHREYS conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN
Thomas Wilson Concerto for Orchestra
9.9* Walton Cello Concerto
9.40* Delius Brigg Fair: an English rhapsody

The three prize-winning plays from last year's BBC African Service Competition Introduced by Gwyneth Henderson who organised it
Sweet Scum of Freedom by JAGJIT SINGH (Uganda) (Third prize)
The play deals with the problems of a newly independent African state and of its minority Asian population.
10.30* Make Like Slaves by Richard Rive (South Africa) (First prize), who says:
A Cape-Coloured poet and a liberal-minded white girl confront one another.
11.0' Station Street by KHALID ALMUBARAK MUSTAFA (Sudan)
A mother who has sacrificed herself to send her son to England to study faces one of the problems of any evolving society.
Producer CHARLES LEFEAUX

A fortnightly series
RAYMOND LEPPARD (harpsichord) c major (Kk 464); c major (Kk 465); G minor (Kk 12); D minor (Kk 34); D minor (Kk 10); A major (Kk 428); A major (Kk 429); F sharp minor (Kk 25)

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