Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi sung by Helmut Krebs (tenor) . as the Evangelist with Verena Gohl , Irmgard Dressler , Renate Krokisius (soprano); Georg Jelden , Johannes Feyerabend. Otto Pingel , Hans - Dieter Rodewald , Johannes Hoefflin (tenor); Max Griindler (baritone); Klaus Ocker. Hans-Olaf Hudemann (bass): Norddeutscher Singkreis; Gunda Rathke , Hildburg Schroder , Wiltrud Katta nek (recorder); Johannes Koch. Josef Ulsamer , JUrgen Sartori. Heinrich Haferland (viola da gamba); Edwin Koch (cello); Josef Lippert (double - bass); Mathias Siedel (organ)
Conducted by Gottfried Woltera on a gramophone record

The publication last year of Volume 3 of The New Oxford History of Music marks a stage in the changing attitude to the music of the past. In this talk DENIS STEVENS deals with these matters from the point of view of a scholar who is also concerned with early music in practice.

Between the years 1091 and 1750 more than 450,000 Irishmen died in the service of France
(Abbe MacGeoghagan)
A ballad opera on the history of the Irish Brigade in the service of France from the Treaty of Limerick (1691) to the decline of the Stuart cause in the 1750s
Written by FRANCIS DILLON
Music composed and arranged by TRISTRAM CARY with the Ambrosian Singers
PROLOGUE
At the Court of Irish History
PART 1
The Road to Limerick
PART 2
Swordsmen of France
EPILOGUE
Soldiering On
Produced by Francis Dillon

Quartet in F, Op. 50 No. 5 played by the Dartington String Quartet Colin Sauer , Peter Carter
Keith Lovell , Michael Evans
: second broadcast