Time: GTS 8.0 am
Australia v England
Fourth Test from the Sydney Cricket Ground
Commentary on the last hour of the first day's play by BRIAN JOHNSTON , ALAN MCGILVRAY and JIM BURKE
Summaries bv LINDSAY HASSETT
Barenboim conducts the English Chamber Orchestra
First of the concerts which were broadcast in the mid-1960s and which can be heard again in Saturday Concerts during the next few weeks ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader EMANUEL HURWITZ ‡ Part 1
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5, in d major
WILLIAM BENNETT (flute)
EMANUEL HURWITZ (violin) DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano)
9.37* Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in e flat major, for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and orchestra (K Anh 9)
PETER GRAEME. THEA KING IFOR JAMES, MARTIN GATT
10.12* Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
BRACHA EDEN (piano)
ALEXANDER TAMIR (piano) (gramophone record) Barenboim, part 2
10.47* Haydn Symphony No 95, in c minor
Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Bach's Mass in B minor, by STEPHEN WALSH
Recent orchestral records: reviewed by NOËL GOODWIN
GERVASE DE PEYER (clarinet)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor JAMES LOUGHRAN t Part 1
Strauss Symphonic Poem: Don Juan
12.35* Arnold Cooke Concerto for clarinet and string orchestra
SUSAN BRADSHAW talks about the biggest of all musical problems, t
Part 2
Rossini Overture: Semiramide
1.35* Schubert Symphony No 4, in c minor (Tragic)
A personal choice of records presented by David Munrow t This week an English programme, including at 2.5* a sequence of theatre music by Handel, Robert Parsons , and Purcell; at 2.36* Walton's Viola Concerto, played by YEHUDI MENUHIN ; at 3.2* a group of English traditional songs; at 3.15* part of John Tavener 's cantata: The Whale: at 3.29* Elgar's Falstaff, conducted by ANTHONY COLLINS
Mozart Piano Quartet in e flat major (K 493)
4.31* Fauri Piano Quartet in c minor. Op 15
PRO ARTE PIANO QUARTET Kenneth Sillito (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Terence Weil (cello)
Lamar Crowson (piano)
(A BBC Lunchtime Concert given in St John 's, Smith Square, London, last June) t
JOHN AMIS talks to the artists-composers, conductors, or performers - most closely concerned with the highlights of next week's broadcast music. t
introduced by STEVE RACE t
HALLE ORCHESTRA leader MARTIN MILNER conducted by MOSHE ATZMON t
Haydn Symphony No 100, In G major (Military)
6.26* Mahler Symphony No 1, in d major
Opera in four acts Music by VERDI Libretto by SALVATORE CAMMARANO (sung in Italian)
(gramophone records)
Cast in order of singing:
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA
The action takes place in Spain in the 15th century.
Act 1: Sc 1: A hall in the Aliaferia Palace in Aragon; Sc 2: The gardens of the palace
Act 2: Sc 1: A gypsy camp in the mseayan mountains: Sc 2: The cloister of a convent near Castellor
Baroness White Eirene White was formerly
Member of Parliament for East Flintshire, from which she retired last year, and held office in the Labour government from October 1964. Her last appointment was as Minister of State for the Welsh Office. t
(Baroness White's next talk: 23 January)
Act 3: Sc 1: A military camp: Sc 2: A hall in the stronghold of Castellor
Act 4: Sc 1: Outside a wing of the stronghold of Castellor; Se 2: A dungeon in the palace
c. H. WADDINGTON , FRS, embryologist, author of The Scientific Attitude and many works on genetics, and a keen student of modern art, in conversation with DENIS DUERDEN , art critic.
In his recent book Behind Appearance, on the impact of science on painting, C. H. Waddington relates how the Philosopher A. N. Whitehead proposed a description of the world similar to the appearance of some types of modern Painting. This conversation takes Whitehead's account as its starting point, followed by an interlude
A programme in which different interpretations on gramophone records are compared. t CHRISTOPHER HEADINGTON discusses three Debussy Preludes, all from Book 1: Les sons et les parfums tournent dans I'air du soir; Les collines d'Anacapri; Des pas sur la neige. The pianists include Casadesus, Cortot, Ferber, Frankl, Gieseking, Gulda, Haas, Ilja Hurnik , and Richter.