Third of six programmes. Handel Organ Concerto in G minor, Op 4 No 3 SIMON PRESTON (organ)
ENGLISH CONCERT/PINNOCK Telemann Concerto in F for three violins, strings and continuo CONCERTO AMSTERDAM/ FRANZ BRUGGEN. Records
Fourth of six programmes of Debussy piano music. Prélude a l'après-midi d'un faune:
BERNARD RINGEISSEN AND NOEL LEE
Hommage a Joseph Haydn ; Le petit negre: LIVIA REV La plus que lente MICHEL BEROFF
Preludes: Book 1
ALFRED CORTOT. Records
Music with a French connection, including works by Saint-Saens, Milhaud, Canteloube, Debussy and Ravel.
Introduced by John Drummond
Music Weekly in Paris
Michael Oliver compares the musical life of Paris and London in opera, orchestras, new music old music, research and resources. Contributions from GILLES CANTAGREL. MICHEL DEBOST. JEREMY DRAKE. YVES GERARD ,
MARTINE KAHANE.
GERARD MANNONI. BRIGITTE MARGER. CATHERINE MASSIP , DAVITT MORONEY TRISTAN MURAIL ,
MICHEL NOIRAY and CHARLES prrr
Producer ANDREW LYLE
from the continuing and individual classical tradition in France Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No 2
ALDO ciccolini (piano) PARIS ORCHESTRA/ SERGE BAUDO
Roussel Sérénade MELOS ENSEMBLE
Franck Symphony in D minor
FRENCH NATIONAL
ORCHESTRA/
CHARLES MUNCH Poulenc Concert champetre
TON KOOPMAN (harpsichord) ROTTERDAM PO/
JAMES CONLON. Records
What was the architecture of the French Revolution? Was there such a thing as a Revolutionary style? Joe Mordaunt Crook ,
Professor of Architecture at London University, in the company of Professor Robin Middleton , visits some of the architectural landmarks of pre- and post-Revolutionary Paris: the Rotunde de la Vilette, the Pantheon, the Chambre des Deputees, the home of Napoleon and Josephine at Malmaison, the Palais-Royale, the Arc de Triomphe - and the Louvre pyramid.
With a contribution from Professor Robert Rosenblum
Readers DAVID KING , JOHN MOFFATT and GEOFFREY WHITEHEAD Producer JUDITH BUMPUS
A sequence of solo and chamber music by Les nouveaux jeunes -
Auric, Durey, Milhaud,
TaiUeferre, Honegger and Poulenc - who, according to Henri Collet in 1920 'brought about a renaissance of French music by a magnificent and voluntary return to simplicity'.
These performances by CAPRICORN are interspersed with excerpts from the work of JEAN COCTEAU, read by Trevor Peacock.
(Given on 11 May in the Music Room of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, as part of the 1989 Brighton Festival)
The last of three talks by Maurice Cranston which trace the influence of the intellectuals of the French Enlightenment on the Revolution of 1789. 3: Voltaire and the Myth of Enlightened Despotism
Haydn's Symphony No 83 in G minor (La Poule) CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA/COLIN DAVIS Records
Compiled from contemporary sources by GRAEME FIFE. 3: Robespierre
His face was mean-featured and ghostly pale with veins of a greenish hue
With Maureen O'Brien , Paul Copley and Maurice Denham.
Songs of the Revolution, introduced by Richard Langham Smith , with contributions by Jean Claude Bonnet , David Charlton ,
Helene Delavault ,
Roger Norrington and Helen Weston , and the voices of Joe Dunlop and Susan Sheridan.
Producer ANTHONY SELLORS
plays the 1714 organ of St Michel en Thierache de Grigny Tierce en taille Dandneu En cor de chasse; Noel de Saintonge Marchand Basse de trompette
Daquin Noel No 6 in D minor
Balbastre Romance;
Noel 'Au 6 deu de pubelle' Boely Allegretto pastorale Lefebure-Wely Pastorale Balbastre Marche des
Marseillois et Fair 'Ca-Ira'
Compiled from contemporary sources by GRAEME FIFE. 4: Saint-Just
One day you felt nothing but kindness towards him: the next day you couldn't help but hate him. With Paul Copley , Maurice Denham and Steve Hodson.
Charles Lecocq 's champagne operetta, set in 1795 during the days of the Directoire.
CHOIR OF THE THEATRE NATIONAL DE L'OPERA
ORCHESTRA OF THE THEATRE NATIONAL DE L'OPÉRA-
COMIQUE/JEAN DOUSSARD Records
I suppose I noticed him because of the look he had in his eyes ... as if everything was magic. Award- winning radio producer Kaye Mortley of the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation goes in search of a violinist in the Paris metro.
Producer TIM SUTER
The French pianist in a live recital from the BBC Concert Hall, London. Faure Theme et variations, Op 73;
Nocturne No 6 in D flat, Op 63
Debussy Estampes:
Pagodes; Soiree dans
Grenade; Jardins sous la pluie; L'Islejoyeuse
8.35 Interval
8.55 Ravel Pavane pour une infante defunte; Gaspard de la nuit:
Ondine; Le Gibet; Scarbo
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In the spring of 1939 La Comedie francaise came to London.
John Weightman reflects on the recordings of that visit from the BBC Sound Archives, along with others of a less classic nature.
With extracts from plays by Beaumarchais, Moliere and Racine.
Producer TIM SUTER
led by CYNTHIA FLEMING conducted by JAMES LOCKHART
JAMES DOWER (flute) The second of two programmes.
Mehul Overture: Horatius Codes
Devienne Flute Concerto No 7 in E
Rigel Symphony in D minor, Op 21 No 2
The sounds and characters of France - in Lyons, Saumur and Columbey-les-deux-
Eglises - as it celebrated le bicentenaire, 14 July 1989.
Producers SIMON ELMES JUDITH BUMPUS and DAVID PERRY Editor TIM SUTER
John Drummond with Jacques Darras.
Berlioz Grande symphonie funebre et triomphale
JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR
DENNIS WICK (trombone) LSO/COLIN DAVIS Record
