Australia v West Indies Commentary fromMelbourne on the last hour of the fifth and final day play in the Second Test Match. Commentators: CHRISTOPHER MARTIN-JENKINS and HENRY BLOFELD.

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ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
Telemann Viola Concerto in G: SIMON STREATFEILD
7.29' Arne Cantata: Bacchus and Ariadne ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
7.39' Haydn Harpsichord Concerto in D (H XVIII 11) GEORGE MALCOLM
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Kabalevsky Overture: Colas Breugnon SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON
8.10* Mompou Cancons i danses Nos 4-6
ALICIA DE IARROCHA (piano)
8.22. Banlock Fifine at the Fair (mono)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

Sonata No 2, In A, for string orchestra ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER La gita in gondola UGO BENELLI (tenor)
ENRICO FABRO (piano) Duetto
KENNETH HEATH (cello) RODNEY SLATFORD (double-bass)
Specimen de l'ancien regime (Peches de vieillesse)
AI.DO CICCOLINI (piano)

(gramophone records)

by Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713-1780) played by DESMOND HUNTER in the Ulster Hall, Belfast
Chorale Preludes: Es ist gewisslich an der Zeit; Zeuch ein du deinen Thoren
Prelude and Double Fugue in D minor
BBC Northern Ireland

Louis Halsey Singers conductor Louis Halsey STEPHEN HICKS (organ)
British choral music, most of it for Christmas, all of it commissioned or first performed by the Singers Peter Aston Four Carols
Gregory Rose It's snowing Peter Racine Fricker Mira bilem misterium
John Joubert Nowell
Bernard Naylor Missa sine Credo arr Nicholas Maw The Angel
Gabriel Richard Rodney Bennett Flower Carol
John Paynter The Rose
Ian Kellam Goday , Sire Christemas

A concert recorded In Orchestra Hall, Chicago, conducted by the orchestra's Music Director. Sir Georg Solti
Rossini Overture: The Barber of Seville
Shostakovich Symphony No 1, in F minor, Op 10
(Shostakovich Symphonies, a BBC Music Guide by Hugh Ottaway : £1.00 from bookshops)
12.10* Interval Reading
12.15* Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Part 2 Strauss
Two Symphonic Poems: Death and Transfiguration: Don Juan
(WFMT Chicago recording)

A weekly series of recitals given by artists of the younger generation.
Richard Morton (tenor) Leslie Howard (piano)
Medtncr (born 5 January 1880) Three Arabesques. Op 7: An Idyll; Tragedy-fragment in 1 minor; Tragedy-fragment in G minor; Sonata in c minor, Op 25 No 1: Seven German songs, Op 46; Four fairy tales, Op 26
(Given in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London. Tickets available from the Ticket Unit, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW)

Introduced by Michael Oliver

Anthony Wall makes a six-stage musical journey, from east to west, across the southern states, meeting. at each stop. the local celebrities who keep the traditional music of their region alive.
' White people used to come down out of the mountains to sit and play with us and try and learn whatever we did. Black folks was the ones that played this mountain music, what you call bluegrass today, before white people got hold of It.
'Course ain't no ene gonna agree with you, but I know. I remember back when I was a little kid and they was playing the same thing, just what we called mountain music.'
JOHN JACKSON
1: Music from the Mountains and the Mines
A visit to the Appalachians, the home of bluegrass, Wiley and Zeke Morris , Woodrow Roberts and John Jackson. Producer DAVID EPPS

TERESA CAHILL (soprano) NORTHERN SINFONIA ENSEMBLE conducted by DAVID BLAKE
David Blake In praise of Krishna, for soprano and ensemble
Robert Saxton Canzona in memoriam Igor Stravin sky, for seven instruments
David Blake From the Mattress Grave: 12 Heine poems, for soprano and ten instruments
BBC Manchester

Jack Brymer introduces the first of a new series of weekday programmes of music for the early evening,

'I would know my shadow and my light, so at last shall I be whole.'
A conversation with Sir Michael Tippctt , on his 75th birthday.
Producer NATALIE WHEEN

DAVID WILDE (piano)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader DENNIS SIMONS conductor RAYMOND LEPPARD Part 1
Ritual Dances (The Midsummer Marriage) Piano Concerto

Part 2
Symphony No 4 BBC Manchester

It is often suggested that the Romantic tradition in music was superseded by 'modernism ' around
1900. Arthur Peacock argues that. far from this being true, Romanticism is still the mainstream and many developments widely regarded as pro gressive are, in fact, just backwaters. With musical illustrations on gramophone records;

from the cycle Schwanengesang (D 957)
JOHN SHIBLEY-QUIRK (baritone)
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) Second of two programes: Der Atlas; Ihr Bud ; Das Flschermädchen; Die Stadt; Am Meer: Der Doppelgänger
(Part of a concert given in 1976 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London)
(Schubert Songs, a BBC Music Guide by Maurice Brown , is available from bookshops, price 75p)

Haydn Quartet in A major, Op 55 No 1
Alan Bush Dialectic
Haydn Quartet in c major, Op 74 No 1
DARTlNGTON STRING QUARTET Colin Sauer (violin)
Malcolm Latchem (violin) Keith Lovell (viola)
Michael Evans (cello)
(Haydn String Quartets, a BBC Music Guide by Rosemary Hughes , 75p from bookshops)