The First Test
Australia v England
Commentary on the final session of the first day in Brisbane.
MW only from 6. 55 am

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 6, in B flat (BWV 1051) ASTON MAGNA FESTIVAL ENSEMBLE
7.22* Mendelssohn Songs without words, Op 19 Nos 5 and 6 VICTORIA POSTNIKOVA (piano)
7.26* Brahms Serenade No 2, in a. Op 16 LSO/ISTVAN KERTESZ
8.0 News
8.5 Grainger The Warriors MELBOURNE SO/JOHN HOPKINS, BEVAN LEVISTON and SIMON ROMANOS
8.24* trad, arr Whittaker Blow the wind southerly (mono) KATHLEEN FERRIER (Contralto)
8.26* Grieg Piano Concerto in a minor, Op 16 PERCY GRAINGER (piano roll) SYDNEY SO/JOHN HOPKINS: records MW joins at 7.35* am

Prokofiev Cinq melodies, Op 35b DAVID OISTRAKH (violin) FRIDA BAUER (piano) Sonata No 7, Op 83
MIKHAIL PLETNEV (piano) Concertino, Op 132
LEV YEVGRAFOV (cello)
MOSCOW RSO/ALGtS zuraitis: records

directed by Jose-Luis Garcia
(violin), William Bennett (flute) Boyce Symphony No 3
Arnold Flute Concerto No 1, Op 45
Mozart Divertimento in D (K 205) Schubert Rondo in A (D 438) (R)

IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
JENNIFER PARTRIDGE (piano)
Warlock The frostbound wood; After two years; As ever I saw
Scott Five Dylan Thomas songs: This bread I break; Here in this spring; In my craft or sullen art; The conversation of prayer: Ears in the turrets hear (first performance)
Warlock Passing by; Rest sweet nymphs; A sad song
Scott Three Wilfred Owen songs: Futility; At a Calvary near the Ancre;
Le Christianisme
(first performance)
Warlock In an arbour green;
The distracted maid; Piggesnie BBC Pebble Mill

Dances both light and grave by John Dowland
DOWLAND CONSORT
JAKOB LINDBERG (lute)
colin TILNEY (harpsichord) records

leader GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk Philip Fowke (piano) Parti
William Wordsworth Symphony No 8
(BBC commission: first performance)
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2, in c minor

Part 2
Grieg Holberg Suite
Sibelius Symphony No 7, in c (Given on 28 October in association with the MacRobertArts Centre, University of Stirling)

(piano)
Beethoven Sonata in E, Op 109 Schumann Vier Nachtstiicke, Op 23
Liszt Ballade No 2, in B minor Wagner, transc Liszt
Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde) BBC Manchester (R)

Two songs from Pushkin's
Garland (Soviet Radio recording) Triptych (Little Symphony) record
Music for Pushkin's 'Snow Storm' (Soviet Radio recording) Snow Falls: record
MOSCOW CHAMBER CHOIR
RSFSR RUSSIAN ACADEMIC CHOIR
MOSCOW RSO conducted by VLADIMIR FEDOSEYEV GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
KIRILL KONDRASHIN

A free translation into modern English verse by TERENCE TILLER Of GEOFFREY CHAUCER 'S
The Book of the Duchess and The House of Fame with Martin Jarvis as Chaucer 6: Encounter with an Eagle
Incidental music composed and conducted by MICHAEL BERKELEY (R)

recorded in the . Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool Introit: Duo Seraphim (Esquivel)
Responses (Duffy)
Office hymn: Maker of man, who from thy throne
Psalm: 144 (Cutler, Havergal) Reading (JB): Ecclesiasticus 44, vv 2-15 Homily:
THE REV ADRIAN SOUTHWORTH
Anthem: 0 come, let us sing unto the Lord (Ramsey) Magnificat (Ramsey in G) Anthem in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Salve Regina (Cavalli)
Organ voluntary: Andante sostenuto (Symphony No 9) (Widor)
Master of the music PHILIP DUFFY Organist TERENCE DUFFY BBC Manchester

Music for the early evening presented by Paul Riley Producer GARETH WALTERS

MARTIN PARRY (flute) KEITH PASCOE (violin)
ANTHONY BYRNE (viola) MARK JACKSON (cello) GILLIAN TYNGAY (harp) with ANNA STEIGER (soprano)
Granados, arr Mark Jackson Oriental
(12 Spanish Dances No 2) Falla Psyche
Tomas Marco Quinteto filarmonico (first UK broadcast) Rodrigo Dos poemas
Granados, arr Mark Jackson Sardana, Op 37 No 2 BBC Bristol

In the last 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.
3: Echoes of the Exotic

leader dennis SIMONS conducted by Gunther Herbig Natalia Gutman (cello) direct from
Lancaster University Part 1 Prokofiev
Symphonia concertante, for cello and orchestra

Sigismund von Herberstein, an ambassador of the Habsburgs, published one of the earliest western accounts of Russia in 1549. Simon Franklin , Fellow of Clare College,
Cambridge, considers the merits of Moscoviticarum Commentarn Rerum and surveys the prodigious range of inquiry of its author.

Part 2 Beethoven Symphony No 3, in E flat major (Eroica)
(Presented by Lancaster University) BBC Manchester

by VLADIMIR ARRO translated by PETER TEGEL with and Two late middle-aged parents are redecorating their flat in Leningrad. They are about to marry off their daughter Olga at last. But the decorating is interrupted by a mysterious visitor in search of a dead poet. Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY (James Grout is in 'When We Are Married' at the Whitehall Theatre, London)

Irvine Arditti (violin)
Alexander Balanescu (violin) Levine Andrade (viola) Rohan de Saram (cello)
Beethoven Grosse Fuge, Op 133 Bartok Quartet No 1
11.20* Interval Reading
11.25* Janacek Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters)
(Given earlier this evening in Studio 1) BBC Pebble Mill

The First Test
Australia v England
Commentary from Brisbane on the second day's play up to lunch.
(Further commentary on the second day at 5.25 am)