Australia v England
Test Match jpecial, introduced by BRIAN JOHNSTON With commentary from lunch to the close of the third day at Perth.
(Commentary by arrangement with the Australian Broadcasting Commission)
7.55 8.0 Weather

Ponce Estrellita Falla Jota , with ISIDOR ACHRON (piano)
8.11* Grieg Violin Sonata No 2, in G, with BROOKS SMITH (piano)
8.30* Walton Violin Concerto in B minor, with the CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by EUGENE GOOSSENS : records

Couperin Third Lesson for Tenebrae JUDITH NELSON and EMMA KIRKBY (sopranos) JANE RYAN (viola da gamba) CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOB (organ)
9.16* Gounod Petite Symphonie in a flat NETHERLANDS WIND ENSEMBLE conducted by EDO DE WAART
9.34*Debussy Bruyeres; General Lavine -eccentric; La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune; Ondine; Hommage a S. Pickwick , Esq ppmpc (Preludes, Book 2) JEAN-RODOI.PHEKARS (piano)
9.51* Duparc Soupir ; L'invitation au voyage; Elégle sur ]a mort de Robert Emmet (mono) PIERRE BERNAC (baritone) FRANCIS POULENC (piano)
10.5* Milhaud Symphony No 8. in D (Rhodanienne) FRENCH RADIO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by THE COMPOSER: records

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Dellus: 'The toughest and the least neurotic of the late Romantics': by HUGH OTTAWAY.
JOAQUIN ACHUCARRO talks about the music of Manuel de Falla.
In the dark times, will there also be singing?': Bertolt Brecht and music, by MICHAEL HALL. Producer CHRISTINE EARDWICK

conducted by JAMES LEVINE
Schumann Overture: Man-fred
Schubert Symphony No 4, in c minor (Tragic); Overture: Rosamunde
(Part of a concert given earlier this year, and made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)

Robert Nye , novelist and poet, reflects on some of the things we say and write. BBC Manchester (Repeated: Wed 2.30 pm)

for one wind instrument, two violins and continuo, by Corelll (for trumpet), John Baston (for recorder), Handel (for oboe) and anon (for trumpet) played on appropriate instruments by members of ARS NOVA.

Antony Hopkins
(Rcpeated: Mon 10.20 am)

4: 1936-1937
With BING CROSBY , FRED ASTAIRE , BENNY GOODMAN , ANDY KIRK and others on disc. The fourth of five programmes
Producer ALAN OWEN

Words and music by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
An intermezzo, first presented at Fontainebleau on the 18 and 24 October 1752, and performed here to celebrate the bicentenary of Rousseau's death. It is sung in the English translation made by Dr Charles Burney for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in 1776. Colin and Colette keep their names from Rousseau's original and the Devin himself becomes the Village Cunning-Man.

Harold Beaver. Reader In American Literature at the University of Warwick and editor of Penguin English Library editions of Poe, examines the peculiar attraction that the American author has had for the French.

One act of a three-act opera by Schubert. Words by GOETHE sung in the English translation by ELIZABETH FORBES Schubert set all three acts of Goethe's Sing-spiel Claudine von Villa Bella in 1815. But it was not performed or published during his life and, in 1848, the last two acts were burnt by mistake. All that remains is the Overture and eight musical numbers.
Cast in order of singing:
BBC SINGERS director JOHN POOLE
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by MAURICE BRETT conducted by DAVID ATHERTON

who is 70 today
String Trio, Op 25
Theme and Variations. Op 57, for oboe and piano Adonais, Op 97 (first broadcast performance)
Dialogue. Op 77, for horn and piano
Oboe Quartet, Op 44 LONDON OBOE QUARTET THE SCHOLARS
RICHARD NUNN (piano) IFOR JAMES (horn)
SUSAN TUNNELL (piano)

Pope Pius ix used to address Liszt as ' My dear Palestrina ', and one day after Liszt had been playing to him, the Pope said, ' the law, my dear Palestrina, ought to employ your music in order to lead hardened criminals to repentance'.
In this talk, Michael Howard examines the extent of Liszt s musical homage to Palestrina. The illustrations are performed by the CHOIR OF sr MARYLEBONE PARISH CHURCH, which he conducts, and MARGARET PHIL-LIPS (organ).

The first of two programmes of works from this year's iscm Festival
CLAES PEHRSSON (recorder) IWA SÖRENSON (soprano) SWEDISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by LEIF SEGERSTAM
Herman Rechberger Consort Music
Jarmo SermllS Love Charm songs
Jonathan Harvey Inner Light III
(First broadcasts In this country of the Rechberger and Sermila)
(Part of a concert given in Stockholm on 7 May)

Oh dear, if yon Yankees could only just see
How they're clemmin and starving poor weavers like me,
I think they'd soon settle their bother and strive
To send us some cotton to keep us alive.
An account of the great distress suffered bu the workers in the British cotton industry at the time of the American Civil War.
Narrator David Mahlowe with GEOFFREY BANKS, RUSSEL DIXON, GARARD GREENDONALD HARVI, JOHN JARDINE. ROSALIND KNIGHT,HARRY MARKHAM, ALAN MORRE, DAPHNE OXENFORD, JOHN FRANKLY-ROBBINS, MARLENE SIDAWAY, BRIAN TRUEMAN, PAUL WEBSTER AND PETER WHEELER.
Songs from Lays of the Cotton Famine arranged and sungs by HARRY BOARDMAN, WITH CHRIS COLE, BOB DIEHL, BILL SINGLETON AND ISOBEL SWAIN.
Script by NORMAN LONGMATE
Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON BBC Manchester

London Symphony Orchestra leader John Georgiadis conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov.
Krystian Zimerman (piano)
Overture: Candide
Chopin Piano Concerto No 1, in E minor

Lionel Dalches. QC, considers the fallibility of most kinds of judicial evidence and the exclusion of information relating to the case in our adversary system of trial. And he questions the courts' refusal to admit hearsay. ' Are we to reject everything that is preceded by the words " Thus saith the Lord " because it ismanifestly hearsay evidence?

Part 2 Shostakovich Symphony No 5
(A concert given in the Usher Hall on 28 August) BBC Scotland

by Janacck
(sung in English) . LINDA FINNIE
(mezzo-soprano)
PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor) RUDOLF FIBKUSNY (piano)

Cello Concerto in B minor (RV 424)
Anthony Pleeth, English Concert, directed from the harpsichord by Trevor Pinnock

(gramophone record)

Fischerweise
BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone) DAVID WILLISON (piano)