A series of eight programmes devoted to the Latin church music of the great Tudor composers, each one including a setting of the Mass, as well as organ music of the period, played by THURSTON DART and others, and some shorter liturgical pieces: Antiphons, Responds, and Motets.
Today's programme includes: Taverner Mass: Gloria tibi Trinitas
PRO MUSICA SACRA directed by BRUNO TURNER gramophone records
Suk Serenade for strings
LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
1.30* Haydn Trumpet Concerto TIMOFEY DOKSHITSER
MOSCOW CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
9.45* Salnt-Saens Symphony in r, Urbs Roma
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN MARTINON gramophone records
Introduced by Michael Oliver
The Private Life of Johann Sebastian Bach. A portrait by PERCY YOUNG
A Janacek Exhibition. Reported on by IAN HORSBURGH A conversation with Elisabeth Soderstrom
Music in Finland today. A discussion with Panvo Heinlnen and Pehr Henrik Nordgren
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK
conducted by ELIAHU INBAL
MICHEL DALBERTO i piano) (Winner of the Sixth Leeds International Piano Competition) YUVAL YARON (violin)
MIKLOS PERENYI (Cfello) Part 1
Mozart Piano Concerto No 13. in c major (K 415)
Dvorak Violin Concerto ft A minor, Op 53
A series of short talks with long thoughts behind them.
Anthony Gilbert , the composer, talks about Serious Music (It any and Pop amongst the Young.
Part 2 Britten Symphony for cello and orchestra
(Hess Radio recording)
The sociologist, Professor A. H. Halsey reflects on some of the things we say and write.
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thursday 2.55 pm)
Bernard Keeffe talks to Charles Beardsall , one of this year's international jurors, reviews the 1978 Let the Peoples Sing competition and looks forward to next year's.
Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.
(Repeated: Monday 9.50 am)
In this programme to commemorate the centenary of the composer's birth, his biographer Michael Hurd shows how the operas reflect an extraordinary life: with specially recorded scenes from
Bethlehem, Alkestis, The Queen of Cornwall, The Lily Maid and The Immortal Hour performed by JANET PRICE (soprano)
JULIE KENNARD (soprano)
SUSAN KESSLER (mezzo-soprano) WYNFORD EVANS (tenor)
NIGEL WICKENS (baritone) STEPHEN VARCOE (baritone) JONATHAN ROBARTS (bass) MICHAEL GEORGE (bass) BBC SINGERS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA, led by ARTHUR PRICE , conducted by OWAIN ARWEL HUGHES
Répétiteur ALEXA MAXWELL Technical presentation JAMES HAMILTON
Producer ELAINE PADMORE
J. H. Plumb. Professor Emeritus of Modern English History at the University of Cambridge and Master of Christ's College, is writing a book on the century in which he feels the growth of a powerful consumer society encouraged the search for leisure and pleasure as we know it today.
In this, his third and last talk, Professor Plumb analvses the 18th century's developing interest in the commercialisation of sport.
Haydn Quartet in D minor, Op 76 No 2
Schubert Quartet in G (d 887) gramophone records
Ronald Kinloch Anderson , who studied with WANDA LANDOWSKA , talks about the part this great artist played in the revival of the fortunes of the harpsichord.
The first of two Latin-American programmes introduced by Alicia Terzian.
Mario Lavista (Mexico) Game GILARDO MOJICA and RUBEN ISLAS (flutes)
Leo Brouwer (Cuba) Elogio de la danza
MIGUEL ANGEL GIROLLET (guitar) Jacqueline Nova (Colombia) Miachu Picchu
(electronic music)
Alfredo del Monaco (Venezuela) Syntagma, for trombone and electronicsounds
JAMES FULKERSON (trombone)
Antonio Mastroglovannl (Uruguay) Reflejos. for chamber ensemble
Edgar Valeareel (Peru) Checan I
ENCOUNTERS ENSEMBLE OF ARGENTINA conducted by HERNAN MURNO
(first broadcasts in this country, except for the Brouwer and the del Monaco)
Man in Space, a radio-romance by STEPHEN DAVIS. with Honor Blackman , Bob Sherman and Peter Woodthorpe Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth-
And ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancyf
(SHELLEY: To the Moon)
How far is a man prepared to go to get away from his wife? For an astronaut the sky need not be the limit.
American flight controllers and others ROD BEACHAM , HENRY KNOWLES , WILLIAM ROBERTS , GARRICK HAGON Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN
leader ELI GOREN conducted by DAVID ATHERTON PETER SCHIDLOF (Viola)
Ravel Suite: Mother Goose Dallaplccola Variations Berlioz Harold in Italy
Terence Tiller selects and Introduces the first of two programmes on the satirical and critical poetry of JAMES JOYCE. If he came to my reach, a proud pursebroken ranger,
When the heavens were welling the spite of their spout,
To beg for a bite in our bark noisdanger,
Would myself and MacJeffett, for-in-hand, foot him outt with Denys Hawthorne as James Joyce
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT
Sonata in D major (D 850) ANDRG TCHAIKOWSKY (piano)
(Part of the BBC Lunchtime Concert from St John 's, Smith Square, given on 4 Nov 1974)
Medleys of the master's best tunes for those who may or may not have missed last week's Ring. (records)
Als ich sie erroten sah JULIUS PATZAK (tenor)
MICHAEL RAUCHEISEN (piano) gramophone record: 1944
