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Test Match .Special, introduced by BRIAN JOHNSTON with commentary on the last two hours of the fourth day by CHRISTOPHER MARTIN-JENKINS, ALAN MCGILVRAY and ALAN SYMONS , and the expert comments of former Australian Test players LINDSAY HASSETT and KEN MACKAY.
6.55 7.0 Weather Comprehensive forecast for UK land areas and inshore waters

Mehul Overture: La chasse du jeune Henri (mono) ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

7.17* Alkan Age 30: Quasi-Faust (Les Quatre Ages) RONALD SMITH (piano)

7.30* Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 129 JACQUELINE DU PRE NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM
(gramophone records)

Marais The bells of Sainte Genevieve
ALICE HARNONCOURT (violin) NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT (viola da gamba) HERBERT TACHEZI (harpsichord)
8.14* Balbastre La Su zanne: La Malesherbe
WILLIAM LINCOLN CHRISTIE (harpsichord)
8.25* Hotteterre Oboe Sonata in D
MICHEL PIGUET
(baroque oboe) HANS-JÜRG LANGE
(baroque bassoon)
LIONEL ROGG (harpsichord)
8.33* Schobert Harpsichord Concerto No 4, in c, Op 15 ANNE-MARIE BECKENSTEINEB JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD gramophone records

Mozart Munich. 1775
Symphony in D (Overture to La finta giardiniera, K 196. with Allegro finale, K 121)
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
Duet: Tu mi lasci? 0 fiero istante (La finta giardiniera) (mono)
PIERRETTE ALARIE (soprano) LEOPOLD SIMONEAU (tenor) AMSTERDAM PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY ORCHESTRA conducted by WALTER GOEHR
Piano Sonata in c (K 279)
CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH
Offertorium: Misericordias Domini (K 222)
VIENNA BOYS' CHOIR VIENNA CHORUS
JOSEF BOEHM (organ) VIENNA CATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA conducted by FERDINAND GROSSMANN
Piano Sonata in F (k 280) KRYSTIAN ZIMERMAN gramophone records

for young people
Atarah's Music Box
Atarah Ben-Tovim talks to a group of young players about the pleasures and problems of learning an instrument and playing together. This week: A Rock Group

Jaime Laredo (violin)
Clifford Benson (piano) Part 1
Stravinsky Suite italienne (on themes of Pergolesi)
18.36* Grieg Sonata No 3, in c minor

A series of short talks with long thoughts behind them.
R. W. Burchfield , the Chief Editor of The Oxford English Dictionaries, talks about Musical Words.

Part 2
Dvorak Sonatina in c.
11.34* Paganini Two Caprices, Op 1: No 9, in E: No 13. in B flat
11.40* Kreisler La Gitana; Liebesleid; Liebesfreud

leader DENNIS SIMONS conductor RAYMOND LEPPARD RAPHAEL WALLFISCH (cello) Part 1
Rossini Overture: William Tell
12.14* Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor

A weekly news bulletin of events in the arts abroad. (Repeated: Wed 8.45 pm)

Part 2 Shostakovich Symphony No 15
BBC Manchester

MAUREEN LEIIANE (contralto) THEA KING (clarinet)
BRIAN HAWKINS (Viola) IAN BROWN (piano)
Lutoslawski Dance preludes
Brahms Botschaft; Das Madchen spricht; Two songs with viola, Op 01; Wie froh und frisch
Mozart Trio for clarinet, viola and piano (K 498)

KAORI KIMURA (piano) FRANCOISE DELOGERES (ondes martenot)
RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, FRANK FURT conducted by ELIAHU INAL

The final programme In this series features the French cellist Maurice Gendron , who was born in Nice in 1920. Beethoven Variations on a theme from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus
JEAN FRANCAIX (piano)
4.43* Haydn Cello Concerto in D: LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA, conducted by PABLO CASALS : records

Introduced by Charles Fox

A sequence of music for the early evening

Presented by Jack Brymer He welcomes John Steane , who gives a personal view, illustrated by gramophone recordings, of Verdi's opera Simon Boccanegra. The singers include TITO GOBSI. VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES. PLACIDO DOMINGO and BORIS CHRISTOFF.

ALFRED BRENDEL (piano)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader JOHN GEORGIADIS conducted by EVGENY SVETLANOV
Rimsky-Korsakov Overture: The Maid of Pskov
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3, in c minor

by Professor Maurice Crosland of the University of Kent.
On the publication of James Watson's book The Double Helix - an account of the struggles that led to the elucidation of the structure.

Part 2 Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade
(A concert given in the Usher Hall on 29 August) BBC Scotland

August 1985
A Future History by General Sir John Hackett and others, which has recently been published. suggests that a major conventional war culminating in a nuclear strike will eventually occur between East and Wfst. Professor Laurence Martin. Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, examines the plausibility of the political and military scenario suggested by this ' cautionary tale ' and questions some of the authors' assumptions about the relation between nuclear and conventional weapons.

First of five weekly programmes, including (in the SOth anniversary year of the composer's death) all the piano music of Leos Janacek. The pianist throughout the series is Radostav Kvapll
Vorisek Sonata in B flat minor. Op 20
Janacek On an overgrown path. Book 1
Dvorak On the holy mountain; Tittle-tattle; Furiant (Poetical Impressions Nos 13, 11 and 7)

Ronald Pickup reads from Wordsworth's great auto-biographical poem, abridged in 12 parts and introduced by Patric Dickinson 8: Residence in France
Meantime, day by day. the roads
Were crowded with the bravest uouth of France,
And all the promptest of her Spirits, link'd
In gallant Soldiership ...

Fantasia in c
ADOLF BUSCH (violin)
RUDOLF SERKIN (pianO) gramophone record: 1932

Sei mir gegrüsst!
HEINRICH REHKEMPER (bar) MANFRED GURLITT (piano) gramophone record: 1928