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Durufle Quatre motets sur des themes gregoriens, Op 10 MARY SEERS (soprano)
CORYDON SINGERS/MATTHEW BEST
7.14* Honegger Concerto da camera: DAVID shostac (flute) ALLAN VOGEL (cor anglais)
LOS ANGELES CO/GERARD SCHWARZ
7.30* Chabrier Trois valses romantiques: MARYLÈNE DOSSE and ANNIE PETIT (pianos)
7.45* Ibert Louisville Concerto CBSO/LOUIS FRÈMAUX
8.00 News
8.05 Cowell Hymn and fuguing tune No 10: CELIA NICKIN (oboe) ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS/
NEVILLE MARRINER
8.12* Prokofiev Cinderella, Op 87 (excerpts) SNO/NEEMEJARVI
8.39* Khachaturian Suite (1942) SETUTANYELand
JEREMY BROWN (pianos)
8.50* Stravinsky Eight instrumental miniatures, for 15 players
ENSEMBLE INTERCONTEMPORAIN/ PIERRE BOULEZ. Records

Contributors

Flute:
Allan Vogel

MARY THOMAS (soprano) FIRES OF LONDON conducted by NICHOLAS CLEOBURY Martin Davies
The still waters by ... Peter Maxwell Davies Excuse me, for voice and ensemble
3.15* Interval Reading
3.20* Schoenberg Pierrot
Lunaire, Op 21, for speaker and ensemble (new English translation by ANDREW PORTER )
(Given on 25 April in association with the Taliesin Arts Centre, University College, Swansea) BBC Wales

Contributors

Conducted By:
Nicholas Cleobury
Conducted By:
Martin Davies
Unknown:
Peter Maxwell Davies
Translation By:
Andrew Porter

recorded at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral
Introit: If ye love me (Tallis)
Responses (Shephard)
Psalms: 32, 34 (Henley, Ouseley)
Readings (RSV): Daniel 7; Matthew 5, vv 38-48
Canticles: Sumsion in G
Anthem: God is gone up (Finzi)
Hymn (AMR 33): The day thou gavest
Organ voluntary: Resurrection (Passion Symphony) (Dupre)

(BBC Manchester)

Contributors

Organist/Master of the Choristers:
Ian Tracey
Sub-Organist:
David Houlder

Under Louis XIV, the celebration of Mass in the chapel at Versailles became a daily opportunity for the glorification of the King of France. Lionel Sawkins introduces motets by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Michel-Richard de Lalande for the Messe basse solennelle. EMILY VAN EVERA (soprano) EMMA KIRKBY (soprano) JUDITH REES (soprano) EVELYN TUBB (soprano)
JOSEPH CORNWELL (tenor) MARK PADMORE (tenor) STEPHEN CHARLESWORTH (baritone)
TAVERNER CONSORT AND CHOIR TAVERNERPLAYERS led by JOHN HOLLOWAY conducted by ANDREW PARROTT

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Unknown:
Michel-Richard de Lalande
Soprano:
Emily van Evera
Tenor:
Joseph Cornwell
Tenor:
Mark Padmore
Baritone:
Stephen Charlesworth
Unknown:
John Holloway
Conducted By:
Andrew Parrott

A New World tragedy by Arthur Miller

The world premiere of a previously unperformed play, written in 1940.
Montezuma, Emperor of the Aztecs, believes that the Spanish Conquistador, Hernando Cortez, could be a reincarnation of the Mexican God of Peace. His refusal to attack the Spaniards leads to the destruction of his empire.

Hear This! page 25

Contributors

Author:
Arthur Miller
Music:
Christos Pittas
Director:
Martin Jenkins
Aztecs - Montezuma:
Ronald Pickup
Aztecs - Cuitlahua, his brother:
John Samson
Aztecs - Tecuichpo, his daughter:
Victoria Carling
Aztecs - Cagama:
Brian Hewlett
Aztecs - Guatemotzin:
Kim Wall
Aztecs - Parach, a priest:
Hugh Dickson
Aztecs - Tapaia:
Tim Reynolds
Aztecs - Talua:
Stephen Rashbrook
Aztecs - Boy:
Stephen Tompklnson
Aztecs - Astronomer:
David Timson
Aztecs - Judge/Quauhopoca:
Norman Jones
Invaders - Cortez:
John Shrapnel
Invaders - Marina, his Indian woman:
Hannah Gordon
Invaders - Alvarado:
John Hollis
Invaders - Olid:
Michael Deacon
Invaders - Fr Olmedo:
Norman Bird
Invaders - Ordaz:
John Bott
Invaders - Montejo:
Paul Gregory
Invaders - Leon:
Paul Sirr
Invaders - Arbenga:
Steven Harrold

Francois Couperin 's Apothéose sonata, composed to the 'immortal memory of the incomparable Monsieur de Lully'.
ENSEMBLE SONNERIE
Frances Turner (violin) Lisa Beznosiuk (flute) Janet See (flute)
Paul Goodwin (oboe) Valerie Darke (oboe)
Frances Eustace (bassoon)
Sarah Cunningham (bass viol) Nigel North (theorbo)
Mitzi Meyerson (harpsichord) directed by MONICA HUGGETT (VIOlin) With BERNARD CHARNACE (narrator)

Contributors

Unknown:
Francois Couperin
Violin:
Frances Turner
Flute:
Lisa Beznosiuk
Oboe:
Paul Goodwin
Oboe:
Valerie Darke
Bassoon:
Frances Eustace
Bass:
Sarah Cunningham
Unknown:
Nigel North
Harpsichord:
Mitzi Meyerson
Violin:
Monica Huggett
Narrator:
Bernard Charnace

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