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French Church Music
Henry Dumont Magnificat SOLOI STS
PHILLIPECAILLARD VOCAL EN SEMBLK
JEAN-FRANÇOIS PAILLARD CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FRÉMAUX
Francois Couperln Deuxieme leçon de tenebres
JEANNINE COLLARD (contralto)
MARIE-ANN MOCQUOT (viola da gamba)
NOËLIE PIERRONT (organ)
Marc -Antoine Charpentier Messe pour plusieurs instruments au lieu des orgues
ANCIENT INSTRUMENTS ENSEMBLE
9F PARIS
INSTRUMENTAL AND VOCAL ENSEMBLE directed by JACQUES CHAILLEY gramophone records

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Denis Matthews presents listeners' record requests by telephone.
This week's guest caller will be Nina Milkina , who at 10.0* will be introducing her choice - the recording of the Quintet from Wagner's Die Meistersinger, With ELISABETH SCHUMANN as Eva. 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
Death in Venice: Music Weekly reviews the first broadcast performance of Britten's new opera, which can be heard on Friday at 8.10 pm
CHRISTOPHER GRADWELL , With members of the LONDON SAXOPHONE quartet, outlines the history and repertoire of the saxophone quartet Editor KEITH BORNER

1900-1973 conducting the BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA with LÉON SPIERER (violin) Part 1
Haydn Symphony No 86, in B
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2, In G minor

Professor Bernard Crick on some things we say and write. (Rptd: Wednesday, 12 noon)

Part 2 Brahms
Symphony No 1, in c minor
(Recording made available by courtesy of West Berlin Radio)

The Letter of Lord Chandos Translated by TANIA STERN AND JAMES STERN Read by ROBIN BROWNE
Hofmannsthal's fictional letter which Philip, Lord Chandos, it supposed to be writing to Francis Bacon , is one of the key documents in the development of 20th-century art.

Part of a piano recital given at the 1972 Helsinki Festival by EMIL GILELS
Sonata in c major, Op 53 (Waldstein)
Sonata in A major, Op 101
(Recording made available by courtesy of Finnish Radio)

JONATHAN MILLER discussing his production of John Marston 's The Malcontent with PHILIP OAKES in a conversation first broadcast in Arts Commentary last April.
Dr Miller's production has now transferred from the Nottingham Playhouse to the Globe Playhouse in London. followed by an interlude

The Return of Tobias An oratorio by Haydu direct from The Mattings, Snape Cast in order of singing:
Alexander Young (tenor)
Chorus of the Hebrews
ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL CHORUS GRAHAM BARKER
(harpsichord continuo)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader KENNETH SILLITO conducted by PHILIP LEDGER Part 1
4.5* H. C. Robbins Landon talks about the composition and revision of Haydn's oratorio The Return of Tobias.
4.25* Aldeburgh Festival:
The Return of Tobias, Part 2

Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.
(Repeated: Monday, 9.45 am)
(Antony Hopkins is taking part in Any Questions? on Friday, 8.30 pm, Radio 4)

Suite No 6, In 9 (BWV 1012) played by PABLO CASALS (cello) gramophone record

by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Music specially composed by DEREK OLDFIELD with Nigel Stock
Anthony Bate , Peter Jeffrey Julian Glover , Martin Jarvis Dudley Foster , Jane Wenham
Caesar's servant.LEWIS STRINGER Producer MARTIN JENKINS
Anthony Bate was a superb Brutus, Nigel Stock was Caesar revealed, and the thunderstorm has never sounded more convincing. (THE GUARDIAN) followed by an interlude

Sixth in a series
PETER FRANKL (piano) GYORGY PAUK (violin)
RALPH KIRSHBAUM (cello)
Mozart Trio in c major (K 548) Brahms Trio in B major, Op 8

Tragedy in one act. Libretto by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL after SOPHOCLES
Music by Richard Strauss (sung in German)
Etektra, mourning the death of her father Agamemnon, swears that she and her brother Orestes will avenge his murder.
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
BAVARIAN STATE OPERA conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH
(Recording by Bavarian Radio)-

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