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French Church Music
Marc-Antoine Charpentier Motet: Quam pulchra es
VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL
ENSEMBLE directed by ROGER BLANCHARD
Mondonville Motet: Cantate Domino (Psalm 149)
MARTHA ANGELICI (soprano)
JOCELYNE CHAMONIN (soprano) ANDRE MALLABRERA (tenor) RÉMY CORAZZA (tenor) GEORGES ABDOUN (bass) CHOIR OF THE
JEUNESSES MUSICALES DE FRANCE
JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS MARTINI gramophone records

On the first of the month robin HOLMES reads from John Clare 's poem

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Antony Hopkins presents listeners' record requests and discusses with them the musical reasons behind their choice
This week's guest caUer will be Gervase de Peyer, who at
10.0* will introduce the Grand Concerto in F minor, Op 5, by the early 19th-century Finnish clarinettist and conductor BERNHARD HENRIK CRUSELL. You can take part in the programme by telephoning [number removed]with your request between 8.0 am and 10.30 todoy or by sending details on a post-card, with your name, telephone number, and reason for choice

Presented by Alan Blyth
SHIRLEY VERRETT and PLACIDO DOMINGO talk about Bizet's Carmen, which is to be broadcast from the Royal Opera House on Wednesday.
' Wm Byrd , a Father of Music, died the 4th of July, 1623 ': DENIS ARNOLD assesses Byrd's music.
Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater: ROBERT HENDERSON discusses Debussy's music criticism.
Editor KEITH HORNER

ISTVAN LANTOS (piano)
HUNGARIAN STATE CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by ERVIN LUKACS Part 1
Kodaly Concerto for Orchestra Bartok Piano Concerto No 3

Professor Randolph Quirk , Quain Professor of English Language and Literature, University College, London, reflects on the raw material of communication in speech and writing- words.
(Repeated: Wed, 11.35 am)

Part 2 Beethoven
Symphony No 8, In F major
(Recording made available by eourtesy of Hungarian Radio)

International radio competition for amateur choirs
Great Britain Rounds: Programme 1
A series to select the British representatives in the international choral competition which is organised by the BBC under the auspices of the EBU
Mixed Voice Class:
Cantorion Ardwyn, conductor Helena Braithwaite
Torbay Singers, conductor Janyce Pringle
School Class:
Latymer Madrigal Group, conductor Michael Brewer
Wirral County Grammer School for Girls, conductor Doris Parkinson
Adjudicators: John Alldis, David Lumsden, Allen Percival
Introduced by David Willcocks
Producer Anthony Philpott

HEINZ MEDJIMOREC (piano)
Mozart Sonata in G (K 283)
Schubert Four Impromptus 899)

La Jolie Fille de Perth
Opera-comique in four acts
Libretto by J. H. Vernoy di Saint-Georges and Jules Adents, based on Sir Walter Scott's novel St Valentine's Day
Music by Bizet
(sung in French)
The incredible story of the love of a glove-maker's daughter for an armourer in medieval Scotland is set to some of Bizet's most delicious music.
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS, Chorus-master STEPHEN WILKINSON
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, led by BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by DAVID LLOYD-JONES
Repetiteur GERALD GOVER
Producer ERNEST WARBURTON
Set in Perth towards the end of the 14th century.

Acts 1 and 2

4.0* Winton Dean talks about the background to the opera.

4.15* The French Opera La Jolie Fille de Perth Acts 3 and 4

followed by an interlude

Paul Tortelier (cello)
Eric Heidsieck (piano) Part 1
Beethoven Twelve Variations on a theme from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus
Bach Suite No 2, in minor, for cello

Three talks by Laurence Lerner about fiction and our changing attitudes to currency 1: Coins and Cheques
'The child spending his pocket money feels the coins in his hand and knows by physical contact how much he has. Wages come in the somehow less tangible form of bank notes, that were once mere promises, like cheques, and have now come to seem to us like real money as they have grown less important.'
LAURENCE LERNER illustrates these distinctions with examples from Chaucer's Pardoner's Tate and from George Eliot 's Middlemarch.

Part 2
Beethoven Seven Variations on Bel Mannern welche Liebe fiihlen, from Mozart's The Magic Flute; Sonata in A, Op 69 Bach Bourrées 1 and 2; Sarabande; Gigue (Suite No 3, in c, for cello)
(A Celebrity Recital broadcast from the Broadcasting Centre. Birmingham, last October)

A modern version of Leo Tolstoy's "The Power of Darkness" by Henry Livings
With Jack Carr as Nick Mather, Kathleen Helme as Mrs Mather, Jane Lowe as Annie Peters and Wilfred Pickles as Milton Peters

EGIDA GIORDANI SARTORI (harpsichord)
Partite sopra l'aria di Fiorenza Toccata ix (Book 2)
Partite sopra I'aria di Follia

A continuing series of programmes of British music DAVID WILDE (piano)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conductor BRYDEN THOMSON Part 1
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
9.43* John Luke Rose Piano Concerto (first performance)

A selection read by STEPHEN THORNE and GLENN BECK

Part 2 Bliss
A Colour Symphony

The last in a series which has included all of Mozart's works in this medium.
PETER FRANKL (piano) GYORGY PAUK (violin)
RALPH KIRSHBAUM (CellO)
Mozart Trio in G major (K 564) Brahms Trio in c minor. Op 101

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