Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks
PRO ARTE ORCHESTRA/
SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS
7.26* Schmelzer Lament on the death of Ferdinand in LONDON BAROQUE directed by CHARLES MEDLAM (Cello)
7.32* Bach Six-part Ricercare
(The Musical Offering, BWV 1079) (mono)
EDWIN FISCHER CO/EDWIN FISCHER
7.40* Frederick the Great Symphony No 3, in D
PRO ARTE ORCHESTRA. MUNICH/
KURTREDEL
8.0 News
8.5 Brahms Variations on the St Anthony Chorale, Op 56b ALFONS AND ALOYS KONTARSKY (pianos)
8.23* Martinu Sinfonia Concertante
JIRI MIHULE (oboe) jnu FORMACEK (bassoon) BRUNO BELCIK (violin) KAREL NOVOTNY (Cello) CZECH PO/ZDENEK KOSLER
8.44* Michael Haydn Symphony in A (p 6) FRANZ LISZT CO directed by JANOS ROLLA (violin) records

Prokofiev: The Last Decade March in B flat. Op 99
USSR MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
SYMPHONIC BAND/NICOLAI SERGEYEV New Year's Eve Ball (War and Peace) SNO/NEEMEJARVI
Symphony No 6, in E flat minor, Op 111: SNO/NEEMEJARVI: records

Octet in F (D 803)
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE record

Sonatas Nos 9, 10 and 11 (Centone di Sonate)
JEAN JACQUES KANTOROW (violin) ANTHEA GIFFORD (guitar) (R)

Introduced by Ian McDougall

BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader DENNIS SIMONS conducted by JACQUES VAN STEEN
Haydn Symphony No 52, in c minor
Nielsen Symphony No 4 (1916) (The Inextinguishable) BBC Manchester

direct from
Broadcasting Centre, Birmingham
Ian Caddy (baritone) Thea King (clarinet)
Clifford Benson (piano)
Bochmann String Quartet Michael Bochmann (violin) David Angel (violin)
Martin Outram (viola)
Michal Kaznowski (cello) Finzi By footpath and stile
Arthur Benjamin Le tombeau de Ravel
Elaine Hugh-Jones Six Songs of Walter de la Mare BBC Pebble Mill

A Musical Portrait of Tolstoy's Heroine
A sequence of music from the time of War and Peace, with readings from the novel adapted for radio by JANE BEVAN Readers ALICE KRIGE and JOHN FRANKLYNROBBINS Musicians
DINAH HARRIS (soprano)
MELVYN TAN (fortepiano) FRANCES KELLY (harp)
BIBS EKKEL (guitar/balalaika) Producers JANE BEVAN and PIERS PLOWRIGHT

String Quartet, in G (1825) RIMSKYKORSAKOV QUARTET record

played by BENNETT LERNER
William Schuman Voyage (1953) Bernstein Touches (1980) records

directed by Robert Salter
Jonathan Plowright (piano) Jane Salmon (cello)
Mozart Divertimento in B flat (K 137); Piano Concerto No 11, in G (K 413)
Boccherini Cello Concerto No 7 inG(G480)
Mendelssohn String Symphony No 12, in G minor
(Given on 15 July in association with National Westminster Bank as part of the 1986 City of London Festival)

Michael Berkeley presents a programme of music for the early evening
Producer JONATHAN STRACEY BBC Pebble Mill

AGNES STREET BAND conductor ERNEST RUDDOCK Derek Broadbent Centaur Hoist A Moorside Suite
Derek Bourgeois Aspirations, Op82

conducted by Tomasz Bugaj Mozart Symphony No 36, in c (K 425) (Linz)
Dukas Scherzo: The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Christopher Headlngton takes a critical look at the week's music broadcasting.

Second of two recitals direct from Christie's, St James's, London

Shostakovich 24 Preludes and Fugues, Nos 13-24

(Tickets from the Ticket Unit, [address removed])

In a series of three illustrated talks, Adrian Rifkin , Lecturer at Portsmouth Polytechnic, shows how French popular songs of the 1930s illuminate aspects of life in Paris at the time.
2: A Street Plan for Desire

arr Marechal Suite populaire espagnole
BORIS PERGAMENSCHIKOV (cello) PAVEL GILILOV (piano) (Swiss Radio recording)

Second of two programmes in which Gerard McBurney surveys Soviet contemporary music written over the last decade.
Vyachislav Artiomov (born 1940)
Invocations, for soprano and percussion
LYDIA DAVIDOVA (soprano)
PEKARSKY PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE directed by THE COMPOSER
Dmitry Smirnov (born 1948) Solo, for harp
TATIANA VYMATNINA
Alexander Vustin (born 1943) Memorian, for chamber orchestra and percussion SLOVAK PO/BYSTRAK
REZUCHA Vasilii Lobanov (born 1947) Piano Sonata No 2 ' played by THE COMPOSER
Sofia Gubaidulina (born 1931) Fortune-telling, for jazz performers and orchestra
VALENTINA PONOMAVERA (VOCals) (all first UK broadcasts) records

Cypress Quartet No 2
String Quartet in C, Op 61Â

Lindsay String Quartet

BBC Bristol (R)

The First Test
Australia v England in Brisbane
England start the defence of the Ashes at the Gabba.
Ball-by-ball commentary on the morning session of play by Christopher Martin-Jenkins , Jim Maxwell and Neville Oliver , with expert comments from Norman O'Neill
Presented by Peter Baxter
(By arrangement with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
(Further commentary on the first day's play at 5.25 am)