Second Test
Australia v England at Perth Ball-by-ball commentary on play after lunch on the first day at the WACA Ground by Christopher Martin-Jenkins , Graham Dawson and Neville Oliver , with expert comments from Norman O'Neill
Produced and presented by Peter Baxter
(By arrangement with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation) MWonly from 6.55am

Roussel Concerto, Op 34, for small orchestra - Cologne Orchestra/Pierre Dervaux

7.17* Purcell Suite: Abdelazer - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood

7.29* Britten The young person's guide to the orchestra, Op 34 - ECO/The Composer

7.45* Debussy Danse sacree et danse profane - Frances Tietov (harp) St Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin

8.0 News

8.5 Elgar Sospiri, Op 70 - City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox

8.10* Couperin L'apotheose de Corelli - Eduard Melkus (violin) Spiros Rantos (violin) Johannes Koch (bass-viol) Huguette Dreyfus (harpsichord)

8.21* Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin - Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields/Sir Neville Marriner

8.37* Bax Tone poem: November Woods - Ulster Orchestra/Bryden Thomson

(records)

Scriabin Two Poems, Op 63 Three Studies, Op 65 MICHAEL RUDY (piano) Prometheus, the Poem of Fire, Op 60 VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) AMBROSIAN SINGERS LPO/LORIN MAAZEL Sonata No 9, in f major, Op 68 VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) Two Poems, Op 69 Vers la flamme, Op 72 VLADIMIR HOROWITZ (piano) Five Preludes, Op 74 EMIL GILELS (piano): records BBC Pebble Mill

led by RAYMOND COHEN conducted by Christopher Adey Bridge Suite for string orchestra Joubert Sinfonietta (R)

SUSAN KESSLER (mezzo-soprano) ROGER VIGNOLES (piano) Schubert Gretchen am Spinnrade; Die Liebe (Klarchens Lied)
Schumann Lied der Suleika (Myrthen)
Mendelssohn Suleika , Op 57 No 3
Beethoven Die Trommel geruhret (Egmont); Gretels Warnung
Brahms Salome
Schumann Die Hochlander -Witwe (Myrthen) Brahms Agnes
Schumann Weit , weit
(Myrthen); Singet nicht in Trauertonen (Wilhelm Meister songs) BBC Scotland

Quartet in B flat (K 458)
(The Hunt); Quartet in c (K 465) (Dissonance)
ENDELLION STRING QUARTET
Andrew Watkinson (violin) James Clark (violin)
Garfield Jackson (viola) David Waterman (cello) BBC Pebble Mill (R)

conducted by Myung-Whun Chung
Annette Robbert (soprano) Otto Daubner (baritone) Gerhard Oppitz (piano)
Part 1 Nielsen Symphony No 3 (Sinfonia espansiva)

Part 2 Brahms
Piano Concerto No 2, in B flat (Saar Radio recording)

Partita No 6, in E minor (BWV 830) KENNETH GILBERT (harpsichord) (R)

Serenade in c, Op 10, for string trio played by members of the CLEVELAND QUARTET (R)

A musical tragedy
Text by YAKOV KNYAZHIN translated by BORIS isarov
Music by Evstigney Fomin (1761-1800)
The first performance in a new English translation.
LONDON VOICES (men's voices) BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader MARTIN LOVEDAY conducted by BARRY WORDSWORTH Producers HUGH WARWICK and IAN COTTERELL

A free translation by TERENCE TILLER Of GEOFFREY CHAUCER'S
The Book of the Duchess and The House of Fame with Martin Jarvis as Chaucer 8: The House of Fame
Incidental music composed and conducted by MICHAEL BERKELEY (R)

recorded in Paisley Abbey
Introit: Jesu! the very thought of thee (Bairstow)
Responses (Rose)
Psalms: 136, 137, 138
(Lloyd, McPhee, Cutler)
Lessons: Hosea 13, w 1-14; Matthew 12, vv 38-50
Office hymn: Christ is the world's light
Canticles: Emmanuel Service (Bryan Kelly )
Anthem: Give unto the Lord (Elgar)
Hymn: All praise to thee, for thou, 0 King divine
Voluntary: Fanfare (Whitlock) Director of music GEORGE MCPHEE Organist JOSEPH G. CULLEN BBC Scotland

Presented by Rodney Slatford Producer PAUL HINDMARSH BBC Manchester

BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader DENNIS SIMONS conductor EDWARD DOWNES
Nicolai Overture: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Korngold Sinfonietta BBC Manchester

by ALEXANDER GELMAN translated by STEPHEN MULRINE
Andrei is near the summit of his career; hard-hitting, go-getting, the man to watch. Natasha, his wife, is struggling to find the truth underneath the layers of emotional and spiritual camouflage which have been Pasted over the cracks in the empty shell of their marriage.
Directed by MARILYN IMRIE BBC Scotland

Last in the series of the I complete string quartets, played by the BORODIN STRING QUARTET Mikhail Kopelman (violin)
Andrei Abramenkov (violin) Dmitry Shebalin (viola)
Valentin Berlinsky (cello)
Music is only valid when each person who comes into contact i with it finds an explanation of iwhatlieshiddeninhisownsoul, of what, until then, he himself had not understood.... (1964) Parti
Quartet No 14, in F sharp, Op 142

Amid rumours of a new era in Austrian politics Peter Pulzer , Gladstone Professor of Government and Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, reflects on election weekend in Vienna, watching for the dawn.

Part 2 Quartet No 15, in E flat minor, Op 144
(Given on 23 March in the Queen I Elizabeth Hall , London)

GORDON FERGUS THOMPSON (piano) Weber Variations on a Russian theme, Op 37 (Schbne Minka) Chopin Sonata in B flat minor, Op 35
Mendelssohn Variations sérieuses, Op 54
(Third programme next Friday)

In 1980 thousands of Russians mourned the death of Vladimir Vyssotsky. Dr Donald Rayfield selects his most powerful songs and those of his fellow ' guitar poets' who offer a unique view of Soviet society.