Australia v England
Commentary from
Melbourne on the last hour of the fifth and final day's play in the Third Test Match by CHRISTOPHER MARTIN-JENKINS . ALAN MC GILVRAY and GRAHAM DAW SON, with comments from LINDSAY HASSETT and BOBBY Simpson (By arrangement with the Australian Broadcasting Commission)
Comprehensive forecast for UK land areas and inshore waters
Listeners' record request* Bozza Overture for a Ceremony: LOCKE BRASS CONSORT, conducted by JAMES STOBART
7.23* Liszt Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude (Harmonies poetiques et religieuses)
ALFRED BRENDEL (piano)
7.41* Bax Symphonic Poem: Tintagel
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLU
Part 2
Mozart Symphony No 31, inD(Paris)(K297)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by KARL BOHM
8.24* Grieg Jeg elsker dig. Op 5 No 3 (mono)
KIRSTEN FLAGSTAD (soprano) EDWIN MCARTHUR (piano)
8.28* Hummel Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 85 MARTIN GALLING
STUTTGART PHILHARMONfC ORCHESTRA, conducted by ALEXANDER PAULMULLER
(Requests should be sent on a postcard to Your Midweek Choice, BBC, Broadcasting House. London W1A 4WW)
Berg
Three Fragments from
Wozzeck HELGA PILARCZYK (soprano) LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by ANTAL DORATI Lyric Suite
LASALLE QUARTET: records
leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by JOHN CAREWE Parry Suite in F (Lady Radnor's Suite)
Stephen Dodgson Idyll
Herbert Murrill Country Dances
played by Peter King In Lichfield Cathedral
Reger Toccata and Fugue, Op 59
William Harris Prelude (Four Short Pieces); A Fancy
Bach Chorale Variations on Set gegrusset, Jesu giitig
BBC Birmingham
YVONNE KENNY (soprano) MARGARET CABLE (mezzo-soprano)
MARY MARQUIS (narrator) BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONT ORCHESTRA leader RAYMOND OVENS conductor
KARL ANTON RICKINBACHER Part 1
Nlcolal Overture: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Ravel Ballet Suite: Ma mère l'oye
(Ravel Orchestral Music, a BBC Music Guide by Laurence Davies , is available from bookshops, price 75p)
11.50* Interval Reading
11.55* Midday Concert Part 2
Mendelssohn Incidental Music: A Midsummer Night's Dream
(A public lunchtime concert given on 12 December 1979 in the City Hall. Glasgow)
BBC Scotland
A weekly series of recitals given by artists of the younger generation
RTE Academica String Quartet
Mariana Sirbu (violin)
Ruxandra Colan (violin) Constantin Zanidache (viola)
Mihai Dancila (cello) Enesco Quartet No 2
Debussy Quartet in a minor
(Given before a studio audience 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 journey across the Southern States, meeting local celebrities who keep traditional music alive.
6: Central Avenue Breakdown
For many, Los Angeles has seemed the promised land: but against the impact of Hollywood, Watts, fantasy and freeways, soul and schmaltz, the blues has to struggle to survive.
Producer DAVID EPPS
Partita No 1, in 3 minor, for unaccompanied violin (BWV 1002) YOSSI ZIVONI
BBC Manchester
KEITH PUDDY (clarinet) John STREETS (piano)
Ireland Fantasy Sonata Finzi Five Bagatelles Bax Sonata
Jeremy Siepmann introduces the early-evening programme of music.
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone)
JÖRG DEMUS (piano) Part 1
Prometheus; Meeresstille; An die Leier
Memnon; Freiwilliges Ver sinken; Der Tod und das
Madchen Gruppe aus dem Tartar-us; Nachtstuck; Totengrabers Heimweh
Part 2
Der Wanderer an den Mond; Abendstern; Selige Welt
Auf der Donau: Uber Wildemann ; Wanderers Nachtlied (Uber alien gipfeln)
Des Fischers Liebesglück; An die Laute; Der Musensohn
Nachtviolen; Gehelmes: Das FischermSdchen; An Silvia; Im Abendrot
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1979 Salzburg Festival)
A little over a year ago, astronomers began to see the universe with a new set of ' eyes '. The Instruments that made this possible are X-ray telescopes mounted aboard the Einstein Satellite. The data returned by the satellite are relevant to many of the important questions in astronomy and astrophysics. Last week the American Astronomical Society held a three-day symposium In Boston, when the new insights were discussed. John Maddox reports on its highlights.
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by LEONARD SLATKIN
JAIME LAREDO (violin)
Copland Suite: Appalachian Spring
Barber Violin Concerto Piston Symphony No 2 BBC Manchester
(The First New England School: Friday 11.5 pm)
