The Final
Benson and Hedges World Championship of Cricket Melbourne's cricketing celebrations of Victoria's 150th anniversary come to an end at the MCG.
Commentators include
Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Alan McGilvray
Introduced and produced by PETER BAXTER

Origins of the Nation State

Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales: NYPO/BOULEZ Mozart Bassoon Concerto in B flat (K 191): MICHAEL CHAPMAN ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS/NEVILLE MARRINER Concert Aria: Non temer, amato bene (K 490) MARGARET PRICE (SOpranO) DENNIS SIMONS (violin) LPO/ JAMES LOCKHART Ravel Alborada del gracioso NYPO/BERNSTEIN records

ARTUR SCHNABEL (piano) Schubert March in E (D 606); Moments Musicaux Nos 1-3 (D 780); Sonata in A (D 959) mono: records

Copland Old American Songs (first set) WILLIAM WARFIELD (baritone) COLUMBIA SO/THE COMPOSER Dvorak Bagatelles , Op 47 JUILLIARD QUARTET, with RUDOLF FiRKusNY (harmonium) Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No 4 ELLEN BALLON (piano) Charles Ives Symphony No 1, in D minor: LOS ANGELES PO/MEHTA records

Introduced by Michael Oliver The Forgotten Operas of Mendelssohn: by JOHN WARRACK. Monteverdi and his Vespers: IAIN FENLON considers the reasons behind the proliferation of editions of this work. Mahler, Vienna and the 20th Century: a talk by DONALD MITCHELL. Producers GRAHAM SHEFFIELD and ANDREW LYLE

VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO Part 1 Beethoven Symphony No 4, in B flat

Written and read by Brian Wright (4)

Part 2 Schubert Symphony No 9, in c (D 944) (Great) MW joins at 12.30*

BORIS BERMAN
Bartok Three Burlesques, Op 8c Debussy Estampes
Franck Prelude, Chorale and Fugue

The second of two programmes of music in honour of Henry Purcell
Henry Hall Yes my Aminta, 'tis too true
John Blow Mark how the lark and linnet sing (text by Dryden) NANCY ARGENTA (soprano) MICHAEL PEARCE (baritone)
MICHAEL CHANCE (counter-tenor) ROGERS COVEY-CRUMP (tenor) PARLEY OF INSTRUMENTS directed by ROY GOODMAN and PETER HOLMAN

DAVID COWLEY (oboe) BRYAN EVANS (piano)
Theodore LaUiet Prelude and Variations on the Carnival of Venice
Saint-Saens Sonata BBC Wales

A programme marking Sir Charles's 70th birthday in which he conducts all four of the BBC's symphony orchestras.
Elgar Concert Overture: Froissart, Op 19
BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader dennis SIMONS
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major: LYDIA MORDKOVITCH BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF
Daniel Jones Symphony No 11 (In Memoriam George Froom Tyler)
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by BARRY HASKEY
Mendelssohn Symphony No 3, in A minor (Scottish)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN (Repeats)
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First of two programmes
CHRISTA LUDWIG (mezzo-soprano) ERIK WERBA (piano)
Strauss Gefunden , Op 56 No 1; Die Nacht, Op 10 No 3; Morgen, Op 27 No 4;
Allerseelen, Op 10 No 8;
Ruhe, meine Seele, Op 27 No 1 Wolf Der Genesene an die
Hoffnung; In der Fruhe; Der partner; Anakreons Grab;
Verschwiegene Liebe; In dem gchatten meiner Locken;
Bedeckt mich mit Blumen;
Muhvoll komm ich und beladen (Austrian Radio recording from the 1984 Salzburg Festival)

Richard Gregory is Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Bristol.
In conversation with Lewis Wolpert he reflects on his unconventional attempts to catch out the cunning mechanisms of the mind.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS

conducted by OLIVER KNUSSEN MARTYN HILL (tenor)
This first of three programmes includes recordings of the first Performances of works by Elliott Carter and Toru Takemitsu. Knussen Coursing
Carter In sleep, in thunder
Hans Abrahamsen Wintemacht Detlev MUller-Siemens Under Neon-Light I
Takemitsu Rain coming
(Given in 1982 at St John's, Smith Square. London)

A short story by SIMON HARCOURT-SMITH Read by Peter Howell

Laszlo Horvath (clarinet) Klara Kormendi (piano)

Saint-Saens Sonata in E flat

Martinu Sonatina

by BARRY COLLINS , with and When Harold blows his redundancy money on a horse called King Canute, his wife finds him on the beach at
Redcar early in the morning blowing his trombone and convinced he can turn the tide.
Trombonist DEREK SOUTHCOTT Brass band music by BESSES 0' TH' BARN BAND
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester

First performances of two recent British works
Colin Matthews Sonata No 5 (Landscape) (1981)
David Blake Toussaint Suite (1977)
SARAH WALKER (mezzo-soprano) NEIL HOWLETT (baritone)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by MARK ELDER

According to the Sarum Rite as sung at Magdalen College, Oxford, circa 1545.
THE CLERKES OF OXENFORD director DAVID WULSTAN
(Given during the 1984 Hexham Abbey Festival in association with H.
Kearton and Sons (Construction) Ltd) BBC Manchester

(piano)
Faure Barcarolle No l,in A minor, Op 26; Impromptu No 2, in F minor, Op 31; Nocturne No 13, in B minor, Op 119
Schumann Papillons, Op 2
Ravel Sonatine; Oiseaux tristes; Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs)