England v Sri Lanka India v Zimbabwe
England's third Group B match is on the North West Frontier at Peshawar, from where
Christopher Martin-Jenkins brings you commentary.
Zimbabwe will find Bombay's Wankhede Stadium very different from their historic last encounter with India in Tunbridge Wells. Henry Blofeld reports on that match.
Introduced by Alastair Hignell Producers JOANNE WATSON and PETER BAXTER MW only from 655
Handel Dances from Terpsichore (II pastor fido) ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS/ JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
7.16* Haydn Cantata: Miseri noi! Misera patria TERESA BERGANZA (mezzo) SCOTTISH CO/RAYMOND LEPPARD
7.27* Murcia Prelude y Allegro JULIAN BREAM (guitar)
7.29* Mozart Flute Concerto No 1 in G (K 313): LINDE CONSORT, directed by HANS-MARTIN LINDE (flute)
8.00 World Service News
8.10 Berlioz Overture: Beatrice and Benedict SNO/SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON
8.17* Schubert Impromptu in B flat No 3 (D 935) ALFRED BRENDEL (piano)
8.29* Mozart Concert aria: Bella mia fiamma, addios ... Resta, o cara (K 528) KiRi TE KANAWA (soprano) VIENNA CO/GYORGY FISCHER
8.38* Britten The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra LSO/THE COMPOSER. Records
with Paul Vaughan Building a Library: Vivaldi's Six Concertos, Op 10 for flute or recorder by Nicholas Anderson. John Steane reviews new records of Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne and The Marriage of Figaro and Spontini's Olympie. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
Wagner Wesendonk Lieder (1948 mono recording) KIRSTEN FLAGSTAD (soprano) GERALD MOORE (piano) Wagner Siegfried Idyll (1927 mono recording) LSO/SIEGFRIED WAGNER Wagner Good Friday Spell (Parsifal, Act 3) (1927 7 mono recording) FRITZ WOLFF (tenor) ALEXANDER KIPNIS (bass) BAYREUTH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA/ SIEGFRIED WAGNER Siegfried Wagner Scherzo: Und wenn die Welt voll Teufel war AALBORG SO/PETER EROS Wagner Isolde's Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde, Act 3) (1948 mono recording) KIRSTEN FLAGSTAD (soprano) PHILHARMONlAaSSAY DOBROWEN
conducted by sm GEORG SOLTI CHICAGO SYMPHONY CHORUS ANDRAS SCHIFF (piano) Dohnanyi Variations on a nursery song, Op 25 Debussy Nocturnes Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1, Op 23 (WFMT recording)
The Medieval Lyric
NEW LONDON CONSORT tries to recover the immediacy of the original settings of medieval narrative verse by using some specially commissioned English translations. anon Samson dux fortissime; Two Planctus from the Las Huelgas MS; Planctus virginum Israel
Petrus de Blois Olim sudor Herculis anon Ecce gratum;
In taberna quando sumus
(Given on 5 December at the Wigmore Hall, London)
ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE
OF MUSIC SINFONIA
PETER LAWSON (piano) BRIAN KAY (narrator)
Webern Six Pieces, Op 6
(version for chamber orchestra) conducted by MARTYN BRABBINS Constant Lambert Piano Concerto conducted by ROY STRATFORD
GARETH MORELL , STEPHEN CLARKE Stravinsky The Soldier's Tale conducted by STEFANO RABAGLIA GARETH JONES , JULES VAN HESSEN BBC Manchester
(Given on 12 September and presented by the BBC in association with the Royal Northern College of Music) • HEAR THIS! page 27
Second of seven programmes reflecting a 40-year partnership Schubert Quartet movement in c minor (1976 recording)
Mozart Horn Quintet (K 407)
GERD SEIFERT (horn) (1970 recording) Bruckner Quintet in F major CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola) (R) (1970recording)
Introduced by Peter Clayton
Robert Hewison (in the Chair) talks with Marghanita Laski , Philip Oakes and Peter Porter. This week: TIM HUNTER 'S film
River's Edge; Fortunes of War, a seven-part television serial (BBC1);
The Hypochondriac by MOLIERE at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith; Manners and Morals: Hogarth and British Painting, 1700-60, at the Tate Gallery; Fivemiletown, new poems by TOM PAULIN. Producer PHILIP FRENCH
LYDIA MORDKOVITCH and CRAIG SHEPPARD
Scarlatti Keyboard Sonatas in G major (Kk 146); c major (Kk 132); E major (Kkl62)
Ysaye Sonata No 4, for violin Szymanowski Sonata in D minor
led by JAMES CLARK conducted by RONALD ZOLLMAN PETER FRANKL (piano) direct from
St David's Hall, Cardiff Parti Smetana Overture:
The Bartered Bride
Bartok Piano Concerto No 1
by DAVID BEAN
Narrated by Garard Green
Five dramatised documentaries telling the story of the Boer War in the words of eye-witnesses 1: The Boojers and the Khakis (Part 2 on Friday at 2.20pm)
Part 2
Smetana Polka; Furiant; Dance of the Clowns
Dvorak Symphony No 8 in
Eight documentaries by Michael Charlton
In the second half of the 1970s, Britain is driven from 'exploring the nature of a hypothetical future constitutional relationship' under Labour, to the 'Hong Kong solution' put forward by Mrs Thatcher's government in 1980.
With The Rt Hon James Callaghan, MP, Hugh Carless, The Rt Hon Richard Luce, MP, The Rt Hon Sir John Nott, Sir Michael Palliser, The Rt Hon Francis Pym, MP and Ted Rowlands, MP.
(R)
First of four programmes
A survey of Goehr's work over the past decade
Psalm 4, Op 38a (1976) BBC SINGERS (women's voices) chorusmaster SIMON joly GARTH KNOX (Viola) JOHN BIRCH (organ) conducted by RICHARD hickox (R) Sonata for cello and piano, Op 45 (1984)
KARINE GEORGIAN (cello) IAN BROWN (piano) (R) Sinfonia, Op 42 (1979)
FELLOWS OF THE TANGLEWOOD
MUSIC CENTRE conducted by OLIVER KNUSSEN
Series producer ANDREW KUROWSKI
(piano)
Beethoven Sonata in E major, Op 109
Schubert Moments musicaux (D 780) (R)