New Zealand v England Test Match Special presents highlights of the third day's play in Christchurch
(For details: see page 26)

Beethoven Cello Sonata in F, Op 5 No 1 with DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano) Schumann Cello
Concerto in A minor with the NEW PH1LHARMONIA orchestra, conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM : records

Listeners' record requests Mendelssohn Fugue, Op 81 No 4
GABRIELI STRING QUARTET
Handel Cantata: Apollo e Dafne: AGNES GIEBEL (sop) DIETRICH FISCHER. DIESKAU (baritone), BERLIN
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by GUNTHER WEISSENBORN
Schubert Symphony No 6 in C: ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN.THE.FIELDS, conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Beethoven's Triple
Concerto and its problems: a talk by STEPHEN DODGSON. A conversation with SHURA
CHERKASSKY.
Tragedy, farce and the dreamplay: some comparisons of Wedekind's Lulu with Berg's, by JOYCE CRICK.
Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD

LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, leader DAVID NOLAN , conducted by KLAUS TENNSTEDT
Mahler Symphony No 6 in A minor
Tennstedt has a way of persuading you that whichever symphony he is conducting at the time is the greatest of all.
(THE GUARDIAN)
A BBC digital recording

Haydn Quartet in c,
Op 33 No 3 (The Bird)
Dvorak Quartet in E flat, Op 51
A BBC digital recording

played by KATHRON STURROCK (piano) Smetana Sketches (Crty) Op 4 and 5 Martinu Eight Preludes (1930). BBC Birmingham

Opera seria in three acts. Libretto by VITTORIO CIGNASANTI
Music by Mozart (K 87) (sung in Italian)
A recording from the 1983 Schwetzingen Festival of the 14-year-old Mozart's setting of dynastic squabbles and intrigues in pre-Christian Asia Minor.
Continuo: HARTWIG NATORP (cello),
MARINETTE EXTERMANN (harpsichord) MOZART ORCHESTRA OF THE
ZURICH OPERA HOUSE conducted by NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT : Act 1
(South German Radio recording)
3.25* Interval Reading
3.35* Mitridate, Re di Ponto: Act 2
4.35* Interval Reading
4.45* Mitridate, Re di Ponto: Act 3

The Rt Hon
Enoch Powell , mp, reviews Bryan Magee 's recently published account of The Philosophy of Schopenhauer and considers the reasons for the philosopher's fluctuating reputation since his death.

The first of six programmes including his music ROYAL LIVERPOOL
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader MALCOLM STEWART conductor MAREK JANOWSKI Mendelssohn Overture:
Fingal's Cave
Edward Cowie Symphony No 1 (The American) (first performance)

by COLIN MCLAREN , read by Jeremy Clyde

Part 2 Brahms
Symphony No 4 in E minor

A programme on the Russian poet AFANASY FET (1820-92), compiled by James Greene from the poems he translated in collaboration with Cynthia Westwood.
Readers Stephen Moore and Liane Aukin
Russian reader Boris Isarov
Turgenev called him 'a nightingale'; Leo Tolstoy referred to his 'amazing lyric audacity'; to
Alexander Blok he was 'a great teacher'; according to Mandelstam, Fet spoke 'with the burning salt of incorruptible words'; to Pasternak he was 'a demi-god'.
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS

(piano)
Brahms Intermezzos , Op
117: No 1 in E flat; No 2 in B flat minor; Intermezzo in A, Op 118 No 2;
Rhapsody in minor, Op 79 No 2
Schubert Fantasy in C (D760) (Wanderer)

Morton Cohen , Professor Emeritus of English at the City College of New York, who has written on Rider Haggard, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling , on the discovery of the documents he used for the work which made his reputation.

Part 2
Liszt Sonata in B minor
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1983 Salzburg Festival)

Symphony No 77 in B flat ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by Kenneth Sillito

An abridged translation into modern English verse by TERENCE TILLER from the Chaucerian version of the 13th-century French poem, with incidental music composed and conducted by Michael Berkeley
10: The Castle Unbarred
(Stephen Moore is a member of The Royal
Shakespeare Company)