A programme of music for Midsummer Day. including a Mendelssohn overture, Delius's Song of Summer and the Apprentices' celebrations from Die Meistersinger. gramophone records

Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Mozart's Symphony No 39. in E flat (K 543), by ROBERT PHILIP
A look ahead with MICHAEL
BERKELEY
Recent choral and instrumental records reviewed by ROBERT HENDERSON

A programme of new records
Debussy Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses; Bruyères; General Lavine-eccentric (Preludes, Book 2)
PETERFRANKL (piano)
10.24- Mendelssohn Songs: Reiselied; Venetianisches Gondellied; Der Blumenkranz; Wanderlied; Naehtlied; Das Waldschloss: Pagenlied '
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (bar) WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH (piano)
10.41* Balakirev Sonata in B flat minor (1905)
RONALD SMITH (piano)
11.7* Janacek Concertino for piano and instrumental ensemble
RUDOLF FIRKUSNY
MEMBERS OF THE BAVARIAN
RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK

England v Australia
Second Test at Lord's
(Third Day) Ball-by-ball commentaries by BRIAN JOHNSTON , JOHN ARLOTT and ALAN MCGILVRAY with comments and summaries by TREVOR BAILEY and ALAN DAVIDSON
Close-of-play summary by E. W. SWANTON
Scorer BILL FRINDALL
11.25-1.35* including lunch summary
1.35*1.40* News
1.40*-1.50* Lunchtime Scoreboard and reports on selected County Championship matches
1.50*-2.10* Your Letters Answered
The commentators answer some of the points raised in listeners' letters
2.10*-4.20* and 4.30*-6.40 including teatime and close-of-play summaries
On days when a Test Match is scheduled, but it is known at close of play the day before that there will be no play, normal Radio 3 music programmes will be broadcast. On days when play finishes early or is abandoned at any time after it has begun, normal Radio 3 music programmes will resume approximately one hour after play has ceased.

Johann Gottfried Walther
Arrangements of concertos by Telemann, Albinoni, Megck and Taglietti MARIE-CLAIRE ALAIN at the organ of the Collegiate Church, St Quentin gramophone records followed by an interlude

A music-drama in three acts by Wagner
(sung in German)
Cast in order of singing:
Sailors, attendants to King Marke
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
(Recording from the Salzburg Easter Festival made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio) The action takes place in Arthurian times.
Act 1 On board King Marke'« ship returning to Cornwall

In which a speaker is given the opportunity to reflect on some aspect of current affairs that has caught his attention.
Eric Hobsbawm. Professor of Economic and Social History, Birkbeek College, London, gives the last of four talks

Act 2 In the garden of Marke's castle in Cornwall
10.20'Shaw on Wagner ALLAN MCCLELLAND reads extracts from the musical criticism of Bernard Shaw , selected by LESLIE STOKES
10.35* Tristan und Isolde _ Act 3 In the courtyard of Tristan's castle in Brittany