ACCADEMIA FILARMONICA ROMANA
Conductor, LUIGI COLACICCHI
Palestrina
Missa Brevis
6.21* Adoremus te, Christe
Confitemini Domino
Dies Sanctificatus
6.28* Alessandro Scarlatti
Intellige clamorem meum
Ad te Domine
Domine in auxilium meum
by John Mortimer with Michael Hordern and Max Adrian
Other parts played by Nicolette Bernard. Pat Hayes. Sulwen Morgan, Sean Barrett. Diarmid Cammell. Stephen Portch , Kit Williams Produced by NESTA PAIN
Max Adrian broadcasts by permission of the National Theatre
Second broadcast
Quintet No. 1, in C minor played by ULRICH BENTHIEN (violin)
Rudolf-Maria Muller (violin)
MARTIN LEDIG (viola)
WOLFRAM HENTSCHEL (cello)
ROBERT RIEFLING (piano) on a gramophone record
translated and introduced by KEVIN CROSSLEY HOLLAND
Read by HUGH Dickson and GARY WATSON
The long fragment known as The Battle of Maldon is a unique specimen of an epic poem contemporary with the events it describes. The battle took place on August 10 or 11. 991, at Maldon, on the River Blackwater in Essex, where an English army, badly outnumbered. was annihilated by the Vikings.
given in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Arts HERBERT DOWNES (viola)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by Michael Gielen
Part 1
Quincunx, Op. 44 (1960) (after
Sir Thomas Browne ).
Lulyens JOSEPHINE NENDICK (soprano) JOSEPH WARD (baritone)
F. H. Hinsley gives another commentary on current affairs
Next talk: May 23
Part 2
Symphony No. 4...Richard Hall first performance
Joseph Ward broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Ltd
Given before an invited audience in Studio 1, Malda Vale, London. Requests for tickets for future concerts, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope, may be sent to [address removed].
by FRANK HARRISON
In the first of two talks Frank Harrison discusses the changing conventions and attitudes which underlay musical activity in Europe between 1100 and 1300. His musical illustrations are drawn from medieval and contemporary folk sources.
Second talk: May 9
ELISABETH SODERSTROM (soprano) MARTIN ISEPP (piano)
Second broadcast followed by an interlude at 10.55
followed by an interlude at 11.15
SERGEI HACKEL , a deacon of the Russian Orthodox Church speaks about the Russian Orthodox Easter celebrations and the service to be broadcast later this evening from the Russian church in Knights-bridge
He illustrates his talk with excerpts from the service recorded last year in the same church.
from the Russian Orthodox Church of All Saints, Kensington Celebrant,
ARCHBISHOP ANTHONY BLOOM Exarch of the Moscow Patriarchate in Western Europe
Commentary in Russian and Serbian spoken by Vladimir Rodzianko
Choirmaster,
Michael Theokritos