India v England at Calcutta Christopher Martin-Jenkins introduces Test Match Special with commentary on the afternoon session of the fifth day's play from
TREVOR BAILEY , JACK BANNISTER , MICHAEL CAREY and ASHIS RAY
Producer PETER BAXTER

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library: Haydn's The Creation by STEPHEN DODGSON. Recent records of contemporary music reviewed by ARNOLD WHITTALL. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Steve Reich Variations for winds, strings and keyboards - San Francisco SO/Edo de Waart

The Maxwell Davies The Bairns of Brugh - The Fires of London, conducted by The Composer

Alfred Schnittke Piano Quintet - Elena Bashkirova (piano) Gidon Kremer (violin) Kathrin Rabus (violin) Gerard Causse (viola) Ko Iwasaki (cello)

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(MW joins at 11.0)

leader DENNIS SIMONS conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON With RAPHAEL WALLFISCH (Cello) Britten Four Sea Interludes (Peter Grimes)
Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor
12.5* pm Interval Reading
12.10* Sibelius
Symphony No 1 in E minor (Given in the Teatro Comunale. Ferrara on 20 October 1984)

MARTIN HUGHES (piano)
Schubert Sonata in A minor (D845)
Beethoven Sonata in F, Op 10 No 2
BBC Bristol

Les vepres siciliennes (The Sicilian Vespers) Opera in five acts
Libretto by EUGENE SCRIBE and CHARLES DUVEYRIER (sung in French)
French occupied Palermo, 1282. The ringing of the vespers bell - for the wedding of the French governor's daughter - is the signal for terrible slaughter by Sicilian patriots.
BBC SINGERS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA, conducted by Mario ROSSI Repetiteur VIOLA TUNNARD Acts 1. 2 and 3 (Act 3 scene 2: BALLET DES
QUATRE saisons conducted by ASHLEY LAWRENCE
4.25* Julian Budden on Les vGpres siciliennes
4.30* Acts 4 and 5

A discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Christopher Bigsby (in the Chair) talks with A. S. Byatt , Christopher Cook and John McEwen.
This week's subjects:
Vieux Carré by Tennessee Williams on Radio 3.
Coriolanus at the National Theatre. London.
Landscape, Memory and Desire, six British painters at the Serpentine Gallery, London. David Lynch's film Dune. An American Procession by Alfred Kazin.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

ROBIN CANTER (oboe and cor anglais)
UNN HENDRY (piano)
Carlo Yvon Sonata in F minor Ferdinand Lickl Serenade
Pasculli Grand Concerto on themes from Verdi's The Sicilian Vespers BBC Bristol

An impression of Malcolm Lowry by ED THOMASON with and To Malcolm Lowry, the divisions between his fiction and his life were always unclear. He shared Ortega's belief that man's life is like a story which he makes up as he goes along and that to learn about the mechanics of writing was to learn the mechanics of destiny. But while Lowry's own life notably lacked the exotic brilliance of Under the Volcano, the man himself compelled remarkable loyalty, love and respect.
Directed by MARGARET WINDHAM

The first of 13 programmes designed to explore the Norwegian tradition that has developed in the wake of Grieg. ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by PER DREIER Harald Saeverud
Kjaempeviseslatten (Ballad of Revolt), Op 26
Johan Svendsen Symphony No 2, in B flat, Op 19
9.0* Interval Reading
9.5* Edvard Hagerup Bull Air solonnel (In memoriam Darius Milhaud ); Symphony No 6

'Burnt Norton' is not a poem about what Eliot believed: it is about trying to believe in anything at all.
In the second of five talks about T. S. Eliot 's Four
Quartets, Martin Dodsworth of London University, reflects on the philosophical suspicion of the first.
With a reading of the poem by John Franklyn-Robbins Producer THOMAS SUTCLIFFE

in King's College, Cambridge First of two programmes
Victoria Magnificat Primi Toni Geoffrey Poole The
Wymondham Chants BBC Birmingham

Second of 13 programmes Johan Kvandal Tre slattefantasier, Op 31 Harald Saeverud
Smaveiganger, Op 14 Gunnar Sonstevold Tva prelyder
Christian Sinding In Folkton, Op 32 No 4; Caprice, Op 44 No 12; Serenad, Op 33 No 4 Grieg Humoreskes , Op 6 played by KJELL BAEKKELUND (piano)

Concerto Grosso in F,
Op 6 No 12: LA PETITE BANDE/ SIGISWALD KUIJKEN: record