Podcast appearances and mentions of Alfred Deller

William Christie, the founder - and guiding spirit for the past 45 years – of Les Arts Florissants, celebrates his 80th birthday on December 19.  Gramophone's James Jolly went to visit him at home in Paris to talk about his long career and its colossal impact of the rediscovery of the music of his adopted homeland. Since leaving the USA in the early 1970s and settling in France, Christie has been a major figure both in concert and on record (with a clutch of Gramophone Awards to his name), focusing on music of the 17th and 18th centuries. Their conversation ranged widely taking in memories of the harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick, the countertenor Alfred Deller, the founder of Harmonia Mundi Bernard Coutaz, and many others. Musical excerpts are from from his Harmonia Mundi catalogue, including his latest release 'Bill and Friends' which finds him performing with a host of young musicians.  

Le 26ème festival Bach de Lausanne fait la part belle à une voix mise en lumière dans les années 60 par le chanteur et musicologue Alfred Deller, celle de contre-ténor. Mais en fait, quelle est la particularité de ce registre ? Comment se différencie-t-il de celui de haute-contre ? Et à part Klaus Nomi, y a-t-il des contreténors pop ? Avec la participation du professeur de chant et coach vocal Robin de Haas. Une chronique de Pierre-Do Bourgknecht.

Hablamos hoy de un libro magistral en torno a la voz de contratenor, que desvela todos los misterios e interrogantes que todavía se plantean a día de hoy respecto a ese instrumento tan singular. Su autor es Miguel Ángel Aguilar Rancel. En este programa charlamos con el editor de Akal, Jesús Espino, y con la experta musicóloga María Condor. En un próximo programa hablaremos también con el autor. La animada conversación estuvo trufada de interpretaciones de algunos de los más eximios contratenores de los últimos tiempos: Alfred Deller, el gran maestro y recuperador, que canta Rosy Bours de Purcell; Bowman y Chance (Sound the Trumpet del mismo compositor); Ledroit (Tristes déserts de Charpentier); Charvet (Flow my tearsde Dowland); Scholl (Ombra mai fu de Serse de Haendel); Jaroussky (Fra le procelle de Tito Manlio de Vivaldi. Cerramos con una exhibición de Franco Fagioli.Escuchar audio

Nick and Tim look back at the solemnity of All Saints and commemoration of All Souls, discuss their origins and play some interesting music (most markedly a Dies Ire by Libra). Here's the playlist. 1. 'Justorum animae' from the album ‘Treasures of English Church Music', composed by C. V. Stanford, conducted by, John Rutter and sung by the Choir The Cambridge Singers. 2. Introit. Requiem eternam dona eis Domine, composted by Johannes Ockeghem and performed by Ensemble Organum and directed by Marcel Pérès from the album Requiem. 3. Dies irae (Gregorian Chant), composer anonymous, performed by Alfred Deller & Deller Consort from the album Sacred Music. 4. Missa pro defunctis a 6 (1605) : Communion, performed by The Sixteen and Harry Christophers from the album Victoria Requiem 1605 The Litrugical Looking Glass is a programme that look at the Church's liturgy for the week ahead explores music written for the liturgy or related to it. It is written by Nick Swarbrick and co-presented by the same with Tim Hutchinson. It airs Fridays at 9am and is rebroadcast at 8:30pm. If you enjoy listening to Radio Maria either live or through podcasts like these, please consider making a once off or monthly donation. To do so visit www.RadioMariaEnland.uk or calling 0300 302 1251 during office hours.

A number of significant classical and opera singers have died in this calendar year, and this episode pays tribute to three of them. First, James Bowman, the most significant British countertenor since Alfred Deller, who died on March 27th in his 82nd year. Second, Melitta Muszely, the Austrian jugendlich dramatisch soprano of Hungarian origin who died in her native Vienna at the age of 95 on January 18. And finally, a loss which reverberated around the operatic world with particularly poignancy and finality, the great Romanian soprano Virginia Zeani, who died on March 20 at the age of 97. While the focus of the episode is on Zeani, I also discuss the significance and contributions of Bowman and Muszely in detail, as well as offering examples of some of their best recordings. In the case of Zeani, I offer a thorough career and biographical overview, including excerpts from her rare studio recordings as well as live material from both the early and late years of her performing career. Also included are recordings by her teachers Lydia Lipowska and Aureliano Pertile, and her husband, the Italian-Russian bass Nicola Rossi Lemeni. And leave it to me to find a way of bringing three such disparate artists as Bowman, Muszely, and Zeani together at the conclusion of the episode! Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available exclusively to Patreon supporters are currently available and further bonus content including interviews and livestreams is planned for the upcoming season.

Rematamos las conexiones de la literatura de Shakespeare con la tragedia de Romeo y Julieta vista por Zandonai y Bernstein y escuchamos el aria del tenor de Giulietta e Romeo del primero en interpretación de Fleta y las dos últimas danzas de West side Story dirigidas por el propio compositor. Luego admiramos un hermoso y nocturnal dúo de Beatriz y Benedicto de Berlioz basada lejanamente en la comedia Mucho ruido y pocas nueces. Por último, desembocamos en El sueño de una noche de verano y la visión que de la obra creó Britten. Se nos presentan Oberon (el contratenor Alfred Deller) y Titania (la soprano Elisabeth Harwood). Cerramos con el final de la ópera en la versión dirigida por el autor.Escuchar audio

durée : 02:58:44 - Été Classique Matin du jeudi 26 août 2021 - par : Judith Chaine - Une matinée aux couleurs espagnoles aux côtés de Victoria de Los Angeles, Astor Piazzolla et Rodriguo. Nous ferons un voyage musical du XVe siècle avec Le Magnificat de Guillaume Dufay au XXe siècle avec Pierre Boulez et Philip Glass. Aussi au programme Vaughan-Williams, Bach, Chopin, Bill Evans... - réalisé par : Arnaud Chappatte

主播打分： 靳锦:7分 媒体人，“93届奥斯卡最佳影片”等13期嘉宾 影片最大的特点就是采用了三种方法呈现时间：用空间写时间，用视点写时间，用时间（道具）写时间。但无论你是否能完全读懂剧情，都不妨碍你感受到影片强烈的人文关怀。当最后老爷子“树叶落尽”的独白出现时，影院里一片哭声。 波米:7.5分 这是一部禁闭岛版《喜丧》——这算一句话剧透了吗？或者也等于什么都没说。因为如果它是《禁闭岛》，那它就不可能是《喜丧》了。从另一个角度来说，对比前者体现了它绝佳的“烧脑属性”；对比后者，又能看出它的局限性所在。 节目总时长：01:26:09； 页首音频包含内容有（无剧透）： 1）影片信息介绍； 2）主播为影片打分并阐述理由； 以上优点部分涉及如下话题（含剧透）： 1）影片用了几种方法描述时间？ 2）电影的主要视角有几个？ 3）女儿的视角是真实存在的吗？ 4）如何利用视角找到”现实锚点“？ 5）道具的变化如何承担叙事作用？ 6）影片的滑幕设计是怎样的？ 7）痴呆版汉尼拔受《福尔摩斯先生》启发？ 8）《恐怖游轮》般的餐桌戏如何进入？ 9）霍普金斯的表演载入史册？ 以上缺点部分涉及如下话题（含剧透）： 1）模糊了现实也就失去了现实性？ 2）父亲的前史太过潦草？ 3）作为家庭伦理片不合格？ 4）对比《诗》，对失忆的表现太单一？ 5）如何理解女儿否认巴黎之行？ 6）如何理解女儿的”弑父“？ 7）扇耳光是否真实存在？ 8）外景的出现画蛇添足？ 外延部分涉及如下话题： 1）电影原版《弗罗里达》与本片有何异同？ 2）戛纳系《爱》和《诗》比它优秀在哪儿？ 3）它比《依然爱丽丝》优秀在哪儿？ 4）泽勒与《三广》导演同为戏剧人，孰优孰劣？ 开场曲：(Deller Consort and Alfred Deller)； 结束曲：(Ludovico Einaudi)； 影片《困在时间里的父亲》重要信息 本片北美分级：PG-13级； 影片英文原名：The Father 本期片目： 《长夜漫漫路迢迢》（1962） 《沉默的羔羊》（1991） 《土拨鼠之日》（1993） 《我脑海中的橡皮擦》（2004） 《初恋50次》（2004） 《恐怖游轮》（2009） 《诗》（2010） 《禁闭岛》（2010） 《盗梦空间》（2010） 《爱》（2012） 《依然爱丽丝》（2014） 《弗罗里达》（2015） 《福尔摩斯先生》（2015） 《记住》（2015） 《喜丧》（2016） 《三块广告牌》（2017） 《南方车站的聚会》（2019） 《小丑》（2019） 《金属之声》（2019） 《困在心绪里的儿子》（待定）

durée : 00:25:12 - Dominique Visse, contre-ténor et chef d'orchestre (3/5) - par : Judith Chaine - Troisième volet de nos entretiens avec le contreténor Dominique Visse. - réalisé par : Lionel Quantin

durée : 00:13:39 - Disques de légende du jeudi 18 février 2021 - Créé à la hâte le 11 juin 1960 pour l'inauguration d'une nouvelle salle du festival d'Aldeburgh, Benjamin Britten enregistre Le songe d'une nuit d'été en 1966 avec Alfred Deller.

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Enjoy this 2019 episode exploring the ancient traditions behind today's favourite Halloween activities: trick-or-treating, jack-o-lantern carving, divination, and... communing with the dead. This episode's music: Intro Music: “Forest March” by Sylvia Woods 2:09 “Nöstmo Halvar” by Per O G Runberg 7:04 “King Orfeo” by Alva 13:07 “Samhain” by Ron Allen 14:55 “Punkie Night” by Withe & Stone 17:11 “Tam Glen” by Jean Redpath 22:45 “Colcannon” by The Black Family 26:30 “The Wife of Usher’s Well” by Alfred Deller & The Deller Consort 31:38 “Souling Song” by the Watersons 38:10 “Faithful Johnny” by Bryony Griffith & Will Hampson 42:30 “Lyke Wake Dirge” by the Young Tradition Image: Scotch Mist by John Duncan

Vocal pyrotechnics abound with high Cs, trills and singing techniques that leave you breathless. At their best are Joan Sutherland, Alfred Deller, Lucia Popp, Sigrid Onegin and Magda Olivero. The post A Coloratura Spectacular appeared first on WFMT.

Elisabeth Kley is a ceramicist & painter based in New York City. https://elisabethkley.com/home.html   Miriam Makeba The Click Song https://open.spotify.com/track/329ss78X6RxaEa6iN1SsH8?si=hpAypZqVS-unq05_nGJeIg   Mompou Canciones i dances #6 Alicia de Larrocha https://open.spotify.com/track/7CvUhDROhXQxhrrmnC7FyW?si=PnLB-   A Chloris, Reynaldo Hahn,Susan Graham https://open.spotify.com/track/4pRn4mVhANBKiy5qYJBTql?si=miOWE0skSwOwkOvYI0hJ7g   Candela Buena Vista Social Club https://open.spotify.com/track/1eHGsCdAWh1Ffowzacpfoi?si=u3feP3xPTDG-BUO2TIkh5w   Sayuri Ishikawa https://open.spotify.com/track/7uaDIIs9LFEKsriiSpbyTx?si=PylHjW7gRd65dlwNGwP0fg   Amarelli mia bella Alfred Deller https://open.spotify.com/track/2GODUlkZI9GRW43oLMVrIa?si=BB44kiN1SdKFJeCUQilIHQ   You can find Elisabeth's work and the work of all the other artists involved in this podcast on www.whatartistslistento.com and @whatartistslistentopodcast on Instagram.    The podcast is hosted by the artist Pia Pack www.piapack.com / @piapack

durée : 01:59:16 - Le Bach du dimanche du dimanche 13 octobre 2019 - par : Corinne Schneider - Une programmation 100% british pour cette 94e émission : avec James Bowman, John Butt, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Alfred Deller, Richard Egarr, John Eliot Gardiner, Peter Harvey, Christopher Hogwood, Emma Kirby, Paul Mac Creesh, Andrew Manze, Trevor Pinnock, Rachel Podger, Carolyn Sampson … - réalisé par : Céline Parfenoff

durée : 02:00:05 - Musique matin du mercredi 04 mars 2020 - par : Jean-Baptiste Urbain - Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, organiste, claveciniste, chef d'orchestre et fondateur de l'ensemble Les Surprises, est avec nous ce matin pour nous parler de son concert au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, le dimanche 8 mars 2020 ainsi que de son nouveau disque à paraître le 22 mai prochain. - réalisé par : Yassine Bouzar

Tillsammans med tenoren Anders J Dahlin svingar vi denna vecka oss upp i de högsta manliga röstregistren. Åsikterna om counterfacket är många och skiftande, vilket även märks när vi tar oss an ämnet. Under århundraden levde röstfacket countertenor ett relativt undanskymt liv och förekom främst bland renässansmusik och tidig barock. En av de sångare som på 1950-talet medverkade till ett nygammalt genombrott, var Alfred Deller som bland annat sjöng i Benjamin Brittens opera A midsummer night's dream. Den manliga falsettsångaren tog sig återigen fram till rampen på operascenerna och ett nytt tidevarv började för röstfacket. Tillsammans med veckans gäst, tenoren Anders J Dahlin, lyssnar vi på några av nutidens stora stjärnor och diskuterar vad som lyfter de allra bästa utövarna.

durée : 00:04:58 - Des soldats pas comme les autres - par : Marc-Olivier Dupin - A la rencontre de soldats bien sympathiques qui chantent, en franglais, leur pauvreté et leur envie de boire un coup. Grâce au contreténor Alfred Deller, la redécouverte du sublime répertoire élisabéthain.

durée : 01:59:16 - Le Bach du dimanche du dimanche 13 octobre 2019 - par : Corinne Schneider - Une programmation 100% british pour cette 94e émission : avec James Bowman, John Butt, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Alfred Deller, Richard Egarr, John Eliot Gardiner, Peter Harvey, Christopher Hogwood, Emma Kirby, Paul Mac Creesh, Andrew Manze, Trevor Pinnock, Rachel Podger, Carolyn Sampson … - réalisé par : Céline Parfenoff

This episode explores the ancient traditions behind today's favourite Halloween activities: trick-or-treating, jack-o-lantern carving, divination, and... communing with the dead. This episode's music: Intro Music: “Forest March” by Sylvia Woods 2:09 “Nöstmo Halvar” by Per O G Runberg 7:04 “King Orfeo” by Alva 13:07 “Samhain” by Ron Allen 14:55 “Punkie Night” by Withe & Stone 17:11 “Tam Glen” by Jean Redpath 22:45 “Colcannon” by The Black Family 26:30 “The Wife of Usher’s Well” by Alfred Deller & The Deller Consort 31:38 “Souling Song” by the Watersons 38:10 “Faithful Johnny” by Bryony Griffith & Will Hampson 42:30 “Lyke Wake Dirge” by the Young Tradition Image: Witch plate. Fancy dresses described, or, what to wear at fancy balls, Arden Holt, 1882.

durée : 01:59:13 - Relax ! du vendredi 04 octobre 2019 - par : Lionel Esparza - Au programme aujourd'hui : l'exploration d'un coffret paru récemment dédié au pianiste tchèque Rudolf Firkušný, le portrait du hautboïste, chef d'orchestre et compositeur suisse Heinz Holliger, et enfin, un disque de légende consacré à Alfred Deller et son Music for a While. - réalisé par : Antoine Courtin

durée : 00:15:11 - Disques de légende du vendredi 04 octobre 2019 - Sorti en 1978, Music for a While, anthologie d'airs de Purcell, marque son temps en contribuant à populariser la voix de haute-contre. Sur ce disque, l'excellent Alfred Deller est accompagné par les non moins grands William Christie, Wieland Kuijken et Roderick Skeaping.

durée : 02:59:32 - Été Classique Après-midi du jeudi 18 juillet 2019 - par : Judith Chaine - C'est l'été sur France Musique ! Demandez le programme ! "Au menu : de la chanson, du swing, du Chopin qui rime avec Couperin, quelques notes de Ravel bien senties, deux à trois airs du Cantor, des images marines enchantées par Janet Baker et un souvenir d'Alfred Deller." Judith Chaine - réalisé par : Arnaud Chappatte

durée : 02:59:40 - Été Classique Après-midi du mercredi 17 juillet 2019 - par : Judith Chaine - C'est l'été sur France Musique ! Demandez le programme ! "À l'affiche du jour du cinéma en couleur et du Honegger, des alouettes et des berceaux, des roses et des ruisseaux, des souvenirs d'Afred Deller qui s'est éteint il y a juste 40 ans, le 16 juillet 1979." Judith Chaine - réalisé par : Arnaud Chappatte

David Rieff has admitted ruefully that he’s made a career out of telling people what they don’t want to hear: whether it’s the politics of the global food crisis in his book “The Reproach of Hunger”, or the failure of the West to prevent the terrible bloodbath of Bosnia in his provocatively-titled “Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the failure of the West”. As a war correspondent, Rieff has worked in the Balkans, in Rwanda and the Congo, in Israel-Palestine, in Afghanistan and Iraq. He’s not afraid to tackle the big issues: immigration, exile, American imperialism. There are thirteen books in all, including a memoir about his mother, the American writer Susan Sontag. In Private Passions, David talks to Michael Berkeley about being “Susan Sontag’s son”, and whether that label has at times been a burden. He’s her only child and Sontag was only 19 when he was born. He reflects on the privilege and yet strangeness of his New York upbringing, and how he has used that background “to make a living being a critic of everything. That’s an immense privilege.” David Rieff is a passionate fan of Early music, and his choices include the 16th-century composer Orlando di Lassus, and Alfred Deller singing Purcell. Other choices include Bach’s moving cantata “Ich Habe Genug”, Shostakovich, Beethoven, and Bluegrass. A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3 Produced by Elizabeth Burke

Sebastian Barry's great-grand-father was a traditional Irish musician, who played on the wooden flute and piccolo. His mother was an actress at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin; his aunt Mary O'Hara had a huge career as a singer and harpist with her own series on the BBC. Little surprise then that Sebastian Barry's writing is musical in the widest sense; full of the rich music of everyday speech. It's an impressive body of work: fourteen plays, two volumes of poetry, and nine novels. Two of his novels, "The Secret Scripture" and the latest, "Days Without End", have won the coveted Costa Book of the Year prize. When he thanked the judges earlier this year, Barry declared: "You have made me crazy happy from the top of my head to my toes in a way that is a little bit improper at sixty-one." In Private Passions, Sebastian Barry talks to Michael Berkeley about the "gaps" in Irish history he has explored in his books: areas which are touchy, taboo, and perhaps deliberately forgotten now, such as the fate of those who were Catholic, but loyal to Britain. He reveals too that his latest novel, a love story between two young soldiers, was inspired by his son coming out as gay. Music choices include Bruch's Violin Concerto; Handel's "Judas Maccabaeus"; Alfred Deller singing "Three Ravens"; Bach's Cello Suites; and his aunt Mary O'Hara singing a song written by Sebastian Barry's own mother. Produced by Elizabeth Burke A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3.

Voici le quatre-vingt-seizième opus d'"En cadence", une émission mensuelle consacrée aux grands thèmes éternels de la musique populaire : l'amour, les voyages, les filles, la Californie ou la prosodie.En ce mois d'octobre, Halloween et la fête des morts approchant à pas feutrés, cette sélection de ballades porte donc sur les apparitions, fantômes, esprits, spectres, revenants et autres ectoplasmes qui hantent la musique folk. Achluophobes, thanatophobes, phasmophobes ou auditeurs carrément phobophobes, s'abstenir !Liste des morceaux :01. The Pentangle - Lyke-Wake Dirge02. Ela Stiles - The Murder of Maria Marten03. Shirley Collins - The Unquiet Grave04. Anne Briggs - Polly Vaughan05. Trees - Lady Margaret06. Norma Tanega - You're Dead07. Buffy Sainte-Marie - House Carpenter08. Tia Blake - Lost Jimmie Whalen09. Alasdair Roberts - The Cruel Mother10. Jackson C. Frank - The Spectre11. Dean Gitter - The Reaper's Ghost12. The Wainwright Sisters - Long Lankin13. Martin Green - Maklin's Bridal March/Griesly Bride14. The Owl Service - The Lover's Ghost15. Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupré - She Moved Through The FairÉcouter

Michael Berkeley's guest on Private Passions is the novelist and short story writer Michele Roberts. The child of a French mother and English father, she was brought up and still divides her time between the two countries. She studied English at Oxford University, worked for the British Council, and then became a writer. She is currently Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of twelve highly acclaimed novels, including 'Daughters of the House' (1992), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the W H Smith Literary Award; 'Flesh and Blood' (1994), 'The Looking Glass' (2000), 'Reader, I Married Him' (2005), and her latest novel, 'Ignorance' (2012), a war-time novel set in France. She has also published a memoir, 'Paper Houses', dealing with the themes that inform her novels - love, feminist ideals and the legacy of her Catholic upbringing; and a collection of short stories of sex and love, entitled 'Mud' (2010). Music has always played an important part in Michele Roberts's life, and her choices begin with Bach's Magnificat and continue with an aria from Handel's cantata 'Donna, che in ciel di tanta luce splendi', in praise of the Virgin Mary. Michele says she wanted to be a nun as a teenager, and became fascinated by female mystics and saints, including Hildegard of Bingen. She loves Kathleen Ferrier's voice, singing Handel's 'O Thou that tellest good tidings to Zion', which she finds very comforting. She also appreciates the voices of Alfred Deller, Jacques Brel and Bob Dylan, as well as an Italian women partisans' song, Bella Ciao, which appeals to her republican sympathies, and the Portuguese fado singer Mariza. Her choices end as they began, with Bach.

For New Year New Music, Michael Berkeley's guest is the Irish composer Gerald Barry. We tend to think of 'New Music' as something deadly serious and even agonised; Gerald Barry utterly confounds that stereotype. His latest opera, which will be staged at the Barbican this March, transforms The Importance of Being Earnest - with Lady Bracknell sung by a bass in a business suit, and Gwendolyn and Cecily throwing dinner plates at each other. It's Barry's fifth opera; his first, The Intelligence Park from 1990, told the story of an 18th century composer who fell in love with a castrato. As well as the operas there are scores of instrumental pieces, piano concertos and choral works. They have wonderful titles: Humiliated and Insulted; The Destruction of Sodom - a piece for 8 horns and 2 wind machines. In Private Passions, Gerald Barry talks to Michael Berkeley about his childhood in a small village in the West of Ireland. It wasn't a musical household, but as a young boy he heard Clara Butt singing Handel on the radio and that was an awakening for him, 'a visitation'. From then on, he knew he wanted to be a composer, though he didn't even know the word. At the age of 14, he won a medal for composition - by taking a Mozart piano sonata and cutting it up, sticking it together again in random order. Barry went on to study with Stockhausen and the Argentinian composer Mauricio Kagel, and he talks about his struggle to make a living as a church organist in Cologne: he was fired, first for being Catholic, then for being late for 7.30am Mass. He gives a moving account of his mother dying, just as his first opera was performed. And he reflects on the woeful blandness of singing voices in the musical world now, compared with the countertenors and castrati of the past. Gerald Barry's marvellously idiosyncratic choices include Mozart, Alfred Deller, Clara Butt, William Byrd, a hymn setting by Stainer, and Oscar Wilde's letter from Reading Gaol, De Profundis, set by the contemporary composer Rzewski. He ends with a hilarious recording of the Red Army Choir singing 'It's a Long Way to Tipperary'. A Loftus Production for BBC Radio 3 Produced by Elizabeth Burke.

Professor of the History of Christianity at Cambridge, Eamon Duffy has changed for ever the way we view the Reformation. His books, including The Stripping of the Altars and The Voices of Morebath, have revealed a picture of late medieval Catholicism as a strong and vital tradition, and have shown that the Reformation, for most ordinary people, represented a violent disruption to a flourishing religious system. Eamon talks about his passion for medieval, Tudor and seventeenth-century music and history, the state of Catholic church music today and the pleasures of playing chamber music. His choices of music include countertenor Alfred Deller singing Purcell, the Beaux Arts Trio playing Haydn and Janet Baker singing Elgar. Eamon's final piece of music is a wonderfully evocative Arab Christian chant for Palm Sunday, sung by a nun from the Melkite order. Producer: Jane Greenwood Part of Radio 3's Breaking Free series of programmes exploring Martin Luther's Revolution.

Voici le soixante-sixième opus d'"En cadence", une émission mensuelle consacrée aux grands thèmes éternels de la musique populaire : l'amour, les voyages, les filles, les mathématiques ou les cigarettes.Quelque chose est pourri dans le prochain programme : l'écouter ou ne pas l'écouter, c'est là la question. Y a-t-il plus de noblesse d'âme à subir la fronde et les flèches de cette heure consacrée à la tragique histoire d'Hamlet, prince du Danemark, ou bien à s'armer contre une mer de douleurs et à l'arrêter par un changement de fréquence ? Allons, allons ! asseyez-vous ; vous ne bougerez pas, vous ne sortirez pas, que je ne vous aie présenté un miroir où vous puissiez voir la partie la plus intime de vous-même. Ah ! Ah !... allons ! un peu de musique !Liste des morceaux :01. Johnny Hallyday - Prologue02. Robert le Magnifique / Tepr / My Dog Is Gay - Hamlet 103. The Tiger Lillies - Sin04. Alain Kan - Ophélie05. Johnny Hallyday - Le Spectre du roi06. Jack the Ripper - Hamlet song07. Duncan Browne - The Ghost Walks08. Majdanek Waltz - ??????09. Momus & John Henriksson - Baloney Polonius10. Black Sabbath - Paranoid11. The Birthday Party - Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)12. Rasputina - Dig Ophelia13. Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupré - How Should I Your True Love Know (Ophelia's Song From Hamlet)14. Peter Hammill - Ophelia15. Minks - Ophelia16. Tears For Fears - Mad World17. Johnny Hallyday - Le Rideau tombe (extrait)Écouter

Alfred Deller (1912 - 1979), englischer Countertenor

Catherine Bott presents a programme to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the pioneering countertenor, Alfred Deller, who was born May 31st 1912. Catherine is joined in the studio by 3 countertenors, James Bowman, Robin Blaze and Alfred's son Mark, to discuss some of the many facets of Alfred's art. They play a selection of Alfred's many recordings dating from the 1950s, including some from the early days of Alfred's Deller Consort, one of his most important contributions to the early music movement. Catherine and Mark also chat about Stour Music, the Festival which Alfred founded and which celebrates its 50th anniversary this June. Music in the programme includes lute songs by Dowland and Campion, a scene from Handel's opera Orlando, and the 50 year old recording of father and son, Alfred and Mark, singing Purcell's Sound the Trumpet.

Roy Plomley's castaway is historian Sir Arthur Bryant. Favourite track: Sweet Nightingale by Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupre Book: Life of Johnson by James Boswell Luxury: Painting by Kneller of a girl in a golden gown