Australia v West Indies Commentary from Adelaide on the final session of the first day's play in the Third Test Match by CHRISTOPHER MARTIN-JENKINS and HENRY BLOFELD.
(By arrangement with the Australian Broadcasting Commission)
Reznicek Overture:
Donna Diana VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by RUDOLF KEMPE
7.39* Coates Suite: Summer Days
NEW PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone records
Comprehensive forecast for UK land areas and inshore waters
directed by BARRY WILDE who is also the soloist in the concerto
Mozart Divertimento in » major (K 205)
Sibelius Romance in c major, for strings
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. in D minor BBC Manchester
Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, by NOËL GOODWIN. New opera records, reviewed by RODNEY MILNES. Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Puccini's one-act opera Suor Angelica and LONDON OPERA CHORUS
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE gramophone record
ENFIELD BAND OF THE SALVATION ARMY conducted by JAMES WILLIAMS
Robert Redhead Festival March: The Sound of the Gospel: Quintessence
Ray Steadman-Allen Vic torian Snapshots on Ratcliff Highway
(Quintessence and Victorian Snapshots on Ratcliff Highway played by permission of the Salvation Army International Music Board)
John Amis presents a weekly selection of classics on record.
(piano)
Bach Fantasia and Fugue in A minor (bwv 944)
Hindemith Sonata No 3
Chopin Sonata in a minor,, Op 58
Nicholas Anderson introduces his personal selection of outstanding music broadcasts of the past week.
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Robert Cushman (in the Chair), talks with Richard Cork. Benedict Nightingale and Claire Tomalin.
This week's subjects: the Josef Herman retrospective at the Camden Art Centre; Gillian Armstrong's film My Brilliant Career; The State of the Language, a collection of essays edited by Leonard Michaels and Christopher Ricks; Peter Nichols's play Born in the Gardens; and the Radio 4UK series, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
ROHAN DE SARAM (cello) DAVID BOLLARD (piano)
Brahms Sonata in D, Op 78 Prokofiev Sonata in c, Op 119. BBC Birmingham
Pastorale heroique In three acts
Music by Lully, ed Salter Libretto by JEAN GALBERT DE CAMPISTRON (sung in French)
A reduced version of Lully's last opera, presented in 1686 at a lavish entertainment in honour of the Dauphin of France. Cast:
BBC SINGERS DAVID ROBLOU
(harpsichord continuo)
SERENATA OF LONDON ' leader NONA LIDDELL conducted by LIONEL SALTER Acts 1 and 2
(DR JOHNSON)
(THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK)
Wordsworth and Cowper have taken the biggest tumble; Accius appears for the first time. A new edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations reflects changes in our Intellectual fashions and greoccupations. Owen udleyEdwards,Reader in History at Edinburgh University, has been brooding on what this new edition tells us about ourselves and on how it differs from its American counterpart, Bartlelt,
Act 3
The British economy in the 1970s showed the conflicting symptoms of the malady ' stagflation '. Dr Alan Coddington , Reader in Economics at London University, examines the series of remedies introduced by successive governments to treat this condition, and the political lessons learnt as a result...
The Turkish pianists Guher and Suher Pekinel , who now live in West Germany, last year gave a concert with the SAAR RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by GÜNTHER wich, at which they played Mozart's Two-Piano Concerto in E flat (k 345), and an encore.
(Saar Radio recording)
A short story by JOYCE CAROL OATES
Read by Ed Bishop
' I had bad luck all my life ... Three times already I begun over and this is the fourth and last. Going to begin all over again up in Canada. Don't you believe me? Producer
MATTHEW WALTERS
String Quartet in A minor (d 804), played by the MELOS QUARTET OF STUTTGART
conducted by JAMES STOBART Buxtehude Fanfare and Chorus; Barber Mutations from Bach; Lachner No-nett; Mendelssohn Funeral March; Strauss Festmusik der Stadt Wien: records
