Second Test
Australia v England in Perth
Commentary on the post-lunch play on the second day 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) MWonlyfrom6.55am
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 2, in F (early version) (BWV 1047a) NEW BACH COLLEGIUM MUSICUM, LEIPZIG/MAX POMMER Beethoven Adagio and Allegretto for mechanical clock VIENNA WIND SOLOISTS Francaix L'Horloge de flore JOHN DE LANCIE (oboe) LSO/ANDRE PREVIN Mahler Ging heut' Morgen iibers Feld (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen) KIRSTEN FLAGSTAD (soprano) VIENNA PO/SIR ADRIAN BOULT Dvorak Scherzo capriccioso, Op 66 CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA/ CHRISTOPH VON DOHNANYI Carl Stamitz Flute Concerto in G MTKAEL HELASVUO (flute) HELSINKI CO/JUKKA-PEKKA SARASTE Nielsen Serenata in Vano ATHENA ENSEMBLE Chabrier Suite pastorale DETROIT SO/PAUL PARAY Wagner Traume (Wesendonk Lieder) KIRSTEN FLAGSTAD (soprano) VIENNA PO/SIR ADRIAN BOULT Mouret Symphonies de chasse LA GRANDE ECURIE ET LA CHAMBRE DU ROYIJEAN-CLAUDE MALGOIRE records
with Paul Vaughan Building a Library: William Byrd 's masses by Nicholas Kenyon. Stephen Pettitt reviews the latest volume in L'Estro Armonico's cycle of the Haydn symphonies. Joan Chissell on new piano records. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS (Re-broadcast Wednesday at 2.50pm) MW joins at 10.5 am
Haydn Symphony No 68, in B flat: L'ESTRO ARMONlCO directed by DEREK SOLOMONS (violin)
Reger Variations and Fugue on a theme by J. S. Bach RUDOLF SERKIN (piano)
Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 1 LESLIE HOWARD (piano) records
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAmNK (Given in Symphony Hall, Boston) (WCRB recording)
Michael Bochmann (violin) David Angel (violin)
Martin Outram (viola)
Michael Kaznowski (cello) with Roger Tapping (viola)
Mozart Quartet in D minor (K 421) Dvorak Quintet in E flat, Op 97 (R)
Fifth of 12 programmes in a complete cycle given by MARTINOTIRIMO
Sonata in E major (D 157) Sonata in B major (D 575)
Two settings of Russian folk tales by PUSHKIN
Rimsky-Korsakov Suite: Tsar Saltan
MOSCOW RSO/KONSTANTIN IVANOV Shostakovich The tale of the priest and his worker Balda
MIKHAIL SENCHUROV (balalaika)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE MALY THEATRE. LENINGRAD/ VALENTIN KOZMIN: records
SHERBAN LUPU (violin)
PETER PETTINGER (piano)
Glinka, arr Auer The lark
Tchaikovsky, arr Auer Lensky's aria (Eugene Onegin)
Gennadi Belov Violin Sonata (first UK broadcast)
Elena Firsova Fantaisie (first UK broadcast)
Schumann, arr Auer The prophet bird
Beethoven, arr Auer Dance of the dervishes
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Philip Oakes (in the Chair) talks with Paul Bailey ,
Michael Coveney and Helen McNeill. This week's subjects:
Dirk Bogarde 's adaptation of Graham Greene 's May We
Borrow Your Husband? on ITV; The Women by Clare Boothe
Luce at London's Old Vic; The English Picture Book Tradition at the British Library; Claude Lanzmann 's film Shoah; Less
Than One, a collection of essays by Joseph Brodsky. Producer PHILIP FRENCH
BBC SINGERS conductor JOHN POOLE
THOMAS TROTTER (organ)
Anima Christi , sanctifica me (1874) (first setting)
An den heiligen Franziskus von Paula (1860)
Mass in c minor (1848, rev 1869) BBC Wales
by PHILIP O'CONNOR
Reader Bob Sherman
'Homer Ellson of Welwyn,
Omaha, came down the stairs for breakfast. But when he looked out of the window he saw six beetles looking at him, as high as a man.'
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS
leader DAVID NOLAN conducted by Semyon Bychkov Dmitri Sitkovetsky (violin) direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London Parti
Verdi Overture:
La forza del destino
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in p major
3.0 pm Skazky
4.15 Salon to Soviet
7.30 London Philharmonic Orchestra
Two talks on the Chinese struggle to keep the past in proportion.
1: Compromising Confucius Dr Mark Elvin, Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, reflects on the death of Confucianism, as a failure of radical Chinese thought.
Part 2 Shostakovich
Symphony No 5, in D minor
Graham Fawcett explores the work of the American poet Robert Hass.
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester (R)
Sacred music by the 16th-century Scottish composer Robert Carver , including his Mass, L 'homme arme, set in the liturgical context of the Feast of St Andrew
TAVERNER CHOIR AND CONSORT directed by ANDREW parrott (R)
String Quartet in F, Op 18 No 1
BRANDIS QUARTET: record