Australia v England
Commentary from Perth on play after lunch on the second day of the First Test Match. Commentators include Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Alan McGilvray and Lindsay Hassett.
(By arrangement with the Australian Broadcasting Commission) followed by an interlude
from 8.0
Comprehensive forecast for UK land areas and inshore waters
Grieg Norwegian Dance NO 3: HALLE ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
89. Sullivan Victoria and Merrie England: Suite NO 1: ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by ROYSTON NASH
8.21* Dvorak Waltz , Op 54 No 1 PRAGUE STRING QUARTET
8.25* Pierne Piano Concerto in c minor MARYLENE DOSSE STUTTGART PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by MATTHIAS KUNTZSCH
8.45* Svendsen Norwegian Rhapsody No 1 BERGEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by KARSTEN ANDERSEN Gramophone records
Edited and introduced by John Lade Building a Library: Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, by JOHN WARRACK. Records for Christmas, reviewed by NOEL GOODWIN Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Wilhelm Popp Scherzo fantastique
JOHN SOLUM (flute)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by NEVILLE DILKES
Corelli Concerto Grosso in G minor (Christmas Night)
COLLEGIUM AUREUM directed by FRANZJOSEF MAIER (violin) Franz Doppler Bird in the woods
Gaspard Kummer Divertissement
JOHN SOLUM (flute)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by NEVILLE DILKES
Locatelli Concerto Grosso in F minor, Op 1 No 8 BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAH gramophone records
EVER-READY CO (GB) BAND conductor
TREVORWALMSLEY,
Elgar Howarth Berne Patrol
Robert Eaves Rhapsody, for soprano cornet an band
Gareth Wood Coliseum
Gilbert Vinter Simon called Peter
BBC Manchester
John Amis presents * weekly selection of classics on record.
played by LESLIE HOWARD
Prokofiev Sonata in minor, Op 1
Scriabin Sonata in sharp, Op 30
Rachmaninov Sonata in 9 minor. Op 28
Stephen Plaistow introduces his personal selection of outstanding music broadcasts of the past week.
(Stephen Plaistow will also be presenting next week's selection, and will give a preview of it on Friday at 7.25 pm)
Introduced by Peter Clayton
(Jazz in Britain: Monday
11.25 pm; Jazz Today: Tuesday 4.55 pm)
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts. This week:
John Spurling
(in the Chair), talks with Owen Dudley Edwards Stuart Hood and Marina Warner
This week's subjects: Uncle Vanya at the Hampstead Theatre; The Oxford Book of American Light Verse; the David Garrick Bicenten ary Exhibition at the British Library; Shyam Benegal 's film Junoon; and Michael Grigsby 's three-part ITV documentary on India, Before the Monsoon.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
A series of programmes devoted to the guitar and guitarists. In today's edition, presented by BBC Radio 3 as part of the 1979 Summer School for Guitar at Brant Broughton, the guest artist Konrad Ragossnig plays music by Sor, Tarrega and Villa-Lobos and talks to DORITA SENSIER
Producer GARETH WALTERS
Opera in two acts. Libretto by the composer, after the play by STRINDBERG Music by William Alwyn
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conducted by VILEM TAUSKY Repetiteur ALEXA MAXWELL Technical presentation JOHN RUSHBY-SMITH
Producer ELAINE PADMORE
The setting is the kitchen of a large country house in Sweden in the 1880s on Midsummer Night. Act 1
Scene 1: Mid-evening; Scene 2: Later that night
New Structures and Secret Languages
Third of four talks by Alexander Goehr in which he examines the phenomenon of modern music. now established for some 60 years - along with an international society to serve its cause - and gives a personal assessment of its current condition.
Act 2: Early next morning
Fifth of six recitals of Bach sonatas and partitas for unaccompanied violin. Partita No 2, in D minor (BWV1004)
Manning Wilson reads a short story by ANTON CHEKHOV , translated by HARVEY PITCHER and JAMES FORSYTH.
The first broadcast in this country of a symphony by Pavel Vranicky , the leader of the Court Opera Orchestra during the last 20 years of the 18th century. It outdoes Haydn's
' Farewell ' Symphony by being both a ' Hello ' and ' Goodbye ' Symphony, with the players arriving and departing one by one - a typical Viennese rehearsal in fact. Between the symphony's second and third movements there are two Quodlibets - orchestral arrangements by Vranicky of hits from the most successful operas currently running in Vienna. Between these Quodlibets. H. C. Robbins -Landon talks about this symphony, its composer and his position in Vienna's musical life.
BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA leader RONALD THOMAS
MELVYN TAN (fortepiano continuo), directed by EDUARD MELKUS (violin)
(Another lith-century novelty: tomorrow at 11. 20 am)
