Comprehensive forecast for UK land areas and coastal waters
Handel Hornpipe in D ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD Vitali Chaconne in G minor EDUARD MELKUS (violin) LIONEL SALTER (organ) KARL SCHEIT (lute)
ALFRED PLANYAVSKY (double-hass) trad Mazurka from Kujawy Region (tnono)
INSTRUMENTAL GROUP
. Chopin Four Mazurkas, Op 68
ARTUR RUBINSTEIN (piano) trad, arr Canteloube Pastorale NETANIA DAVRATH (Soprano) ORCHESTRA, conducted by PIERRE DE LA ROCHE trad Pastourelle and La farandole (mono)
CHRISTIAN SICARD (pipe) MICHEL BONTOUX (tabor)
Bizet L'Arlesienne: Suite No 2 ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM :
(records)
Beethoven Sonata in ft, Op 12 No 1: ARTHUR GRUMIAUX (violin) CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano)
Dvorak String Quartet in a fiat, Op 105
PRAGUE STRING QUARTET: records
conducted by ANDREW DAVIS
Tippett Ritual Dances (The Midsummer Marriage)
Beethoven Symphony No 3. in c flat (Eroica). BBC Scotland
Test Match Special England v
The West Indies at Old Trafford (Third day) Ball-by-ball commentary by JOHN ARLOTT , HENRY BLOFEL *
TONY COZIER and BRIAN JOHNSTON Comments and summaries by TREVOR BAILEY and FRED TRUEMAN
Scorer BILL FRINDALL
11.25-1.35* ine lunch summary
1.35--1.40* News
1.40'-2.0* Your Letters Answered The commentators answer some of the points raised in listeners' letters
2.0*-2.10* Lunchtime Scoreboard
2.10'.4.20*.; 4.30*-6.40 Commentary with teatime and close-of-play summaries
Introduced by Peter Clayton
Two programmes this evening compare performances of symphonies by Sibelius recorded three years apart with different orchestras. First Koussevitsky conducts his BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA in the Symphony No 5, in E flat, recorded in Boston in December 1936.
Alfred Brendel (piano) direct from the Town Hall, Cheltenham Beethoven Variations Part 1
Six Variations on an original air in F, Op 34
Fifteen Variations and Fugue in E flat on a theme from Prometheus, Op 35
'It is an ancient truth, frequently forgotten, that people behave according to the manner in which they are treated.' Mark Bonham Carter , Chairman. Community Relations Commission, argues that the future of race relations in Britain depends primarily on the attitude and behaviour of the white majority.
(Legislating against Tension: Analysis, R4 Thursday 8.45 pm)
Beethoven Variations. part 2
Thirty-three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli in c major. Op 120
(In association with the Walker Crosiveller Group and the Macfarlane Walker Trust) (Another concert from the Festival: tomorrow 8.0 pm)
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
This week: Michael Billington (in the Chair) talks with EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH , CHRISTOPHER RiCKS and CLAIRE TOMALIN. Producer PHILIP FRENCH
A recording made at a public concert in May 1933 given by Koussevitskv and the BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Of the Symphony No 7, in c major, by Sibelius.
