Comprehensive forecast for UK land areas and inshore waters
Auric Ouverture
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
7.12* Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No 3, in E flat
ALDO CICCOLINI (piano) THE PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by SERGE BAUDO
7.42* Poulenc Suite française
THE PARIS ORCHESTRA, conducted by GEORGES PRETRE : records
Spohr Nonet in r major
MEMBERS OF THE VIENNA OCTET
8.34* Pleyel Sinfonia Concertante in b flat
ISAAC STERN (violin)
PINCHAS ZUKERMAN (Viola)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM gramophone records
Gustav Holst
Hymn of the Travellers (from the Third Group of the Rig Veda): Purcell Singers
Osian Ellis (harp)
9.9* Chamber Opera: Savitri Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
Robert Tear (tenor)
Thomas Hemsley (bass)
Purcell Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Imogen Holst: Records
The last of five programmes String Quintet in c (K 515) AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello) with CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola)
leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
A light music programme emphasising work by living British composers.
David Morgan Overture for a Festive Occasion
Percy Grainger My Robin is to the greenwood gone
Peter Hope Kaleidoscope Gareth Walters Sinfonia Breve Elgar Sursum corda
Bryan Kelly Four Realms Suite
Test Match Special England v
The West Indies at The Oval
Ball-by-ball commentary by JOHN ARLOTT , TONY COZIER , BRIAN JOHNSTON , DON MOSEY Comments and summaries by TREVOR BAILEY and FRED TRUEMAN Scorer BILL rindall
A personal preview by DONALD PRICE of some of the plays and features on Radio 3 and Radio 4 in the week ahead.
2.0*-2.10* Lunchtime Scoreboard
2.10* -4.20*;
4.30'-5.45
Commentary with teatime summary
5.45-6.40 inc close-of-play summary
Leisure and Recreation
C.40 Reading for Pleasure
DENIS NORDEN talks about some of his favourite books.
7.0 Special Report
MAUREEN GALVIN visits the play-group at Richmond Adult College.
7.10 Listen Here
BRUCE COLE considers the differing demands made on us by music. Series producers DAVID EPPS and JOHN BOUNDY
A lyric opera in three acts direct from the Royal Albert Hall
Libretto by Arrigo Boito after Shakespeare.
A concert performance sung in Italian by the Scottish Opera
Scottish Opera Chorus, director John Currie
Scottish National Orchestra, leader Edwin Paling, conductor Alexander GibsonÃ
Act 1
Can the educational needs of the Indian villager be met by a technological fix? In two days' time. a satellite that has been relaying TV directly into 2,400 outlying villages will move on, ending a year-long test of education by satellite.
Peter Dannheisser - Senior Research Officer with the IBAassesses how well the Indian experiment has worked and what it means for other countries,
Verdi: Falstaff Act 2
Patricia Beer. poet and critic, compares the lives of army wives in reality and fiction in the 19th century.
Verdi: FalstaS Act 3
Commotio (1931), played by JAMES DALTON on the organ of Queen's College, Oxford,
played by the LA SALLE QUARTET: record
The poems in Finnegans Wake with introductions and commentaries.
Last of three programmes written and produced by Terence Tiller
Narrator David Lloyd James
Poems on pages 175, 371-3, 383, and 398-9 of the British edition.
(Joyce and Music: 16 August)
