England v Pakistan in Melbourne
England's last qualifying match for the semi-finals in the Benson and Hedges World Championship of Cricket. Commentators include
Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Alan McGilvray
Introduced and produced by PETER BAXTER

Gordon Jacob A William Byrd Suite: EASTMAN WIND ENSEMBLE/FREDERICK FENNELL Martinu Spalicek: Suite No 2 BRNO STATE PO/JIRI WALDHANS Cambini Wind Quintet No 3, in F: BELGIAN WIND QUINTET Rossini String Sonata No 2, in A: ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN. IN-THE-FIELDS/NEVILLE MARRINER Saint-Saens The Nightingale Verdi The Chimney-Sweep (sung in German) RITA STREICH (soprano) BERLIN RADIO SO/KURT GOEBEL Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor: SOLOMON (piano) PHILHARMONIA/HERBERT MENGES records

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library: Vivaldi's Gloria in D (rv 589) by UONEL SALTER. Recent records of 20th-century music reviewed by PAUL GRIFFITHS Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Les Six Ballet: Les maries de la tour Eiffel PHILHARMONIA/GEOFFREY SIMON Caplet Symphonic Study: The Masque of the Red Death FREDERIQUE CAMBREUNG (harp) MONTE CARLO PO/GEORGES PRETRE

Dmitri ALEXEEV (piano) 'our Pieces, Op 32 Sarcasms, Op 17 °BC Manchester MW joins at 11.30

Symphony No 4,
M E Hat major (Romantic)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by RICCARDO muti
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1984 Salzburg Festival)

Jiri Novak (violin)
Lubomir Kostecky (violin) Milan Skampa (viola)
Antonin Kohout (cello)
Smetana String Quartet No 2, in D minor (1882)
Novak String Quartet No 2, in D major, Op 35 BBC Manchester

1885-1973
He has all the characteristics that go to make a great conductor. (GUSTAV MAHLER, 1910) The first of six programmes celebrating a recording career that spanned almost half a century.
Offenbach Overture:
La belle Helene (mono: 1929) Strauss Symphonic Poem: Don Juan (mono: 1929)
BERLIN STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA Mahler Four Songs
(RUckert Lieder; Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
CHRISTA LUDWIG (mezzo-soprano) PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1, in C: DANIEL BARENBOIM NEW PHlLHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Wagner Siegfried Idyll PtflLHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Weill Kleine Dreigroschenmusik (excerpts) (mono: 1931)
BERLIN STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique Klemperer Merry Waltz
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA: records Producer PATRICK LAMBERT
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Introduced by Peter Clayton

A discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Peter Ackroyd (in the Chair) talks with Richard Cork , Richard Mayne and Margaret Walters.
This week's subjects:
Robert Benton 's film Places in the Heart; The Burston
Rebellion by Elaine Morgan on BBC2; recent paintings by John Walker at the Hayward Gallery, London; Athol
Fugard's Road to Mecca at the National Theatre; and The Engineer of Human Souls, a novel by Josef Skvorecky. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Gunter Pichler (violin) Gerhard Schulz (violin) Thomas Kakuska (viola) Valentin Erben (cello) Mozart String Quartet in c major (K 465) (Dissonance) Bartok String Quartet No 3

2: Freeing the Mad
Roy Porter , Senior Lecturer in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute, views some contemporary medical problems in the mirror of history.
(Final programme, The Sexual Dilemma, on Friday at 7.55 pm)

Part 2 Schubert String Quartet in A minor (D 804)
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1984 Salzburg Festival)

including the first performance of a recently discovered symphonic fragment
Bach. orch Schoenberg Prelude and Fugue in E flat major
Schoenberg Frühlings Tod (first performance)
A Survivor from Warsaw
Verklärte Nacht (orchestral version)
GÃœNTER REICH (speaker)
BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RICCARDO CHAILLY (RIAS Berlin recording)

A short story by MAGDALENA BUZNEA
Read by Dilys Laye

LIZA FUCHSOVA
Dvorak Theme and Variations in A flat major, Op 36
Fibich Moods, Impressions and Memories: in A major, Op 44
No 14; in D minor, Op 44 No 25; in A major, Op 57 No 21; in F sharp minor, Op 57 No 11; in A flat major, Op 57 No 10 Novak Song of a carnival night (Songs of winter nights, Op 30)
(Firstbroadcastin1971)

Motets and cantatas for the church year
Byrd Miserere mei
Payne A little Passiontide cantata
Byrd Alleluia ascendit Deus Payne A little Ascension cantata (first broadcast) Byrd Non vos relinquam
Payne A little Whitsuntide cantata (first broadcast) Byrd Rorate coeli
Payne A little Christmas cantata (first performance) BBC SINGERS conducted by JOHN POOLE

The tenth in the series devoted to the Norwegian tradition that has developed in the wake of Grieg.
Fartein Valen Pastorale , Op 11; Ode to Solitude, Op 35 OSLO PO/ME.TIADES CARIDIS
Eivind Groven Draumkvaedet , for soloists, chorus and orchestra
TORIL CARLSEN (soprano) KARE BJORKOY (tenor)
ASBJORN HANSLI (baritone) BRIGHTON FESTIVAL CHORUS RPO/PER DREIER records