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Handel As Steals the Morn (L 'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed Il Moderato) - Patrizia Kwella (soprano) Maldwyn Davies (tenor) English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner

7.07 Haydn Symphony No 73 in D (La Chasse) - Hanover Band/Roy Goodman

7.30am News

7.35 Weill Kleine Dreigroschenmusik - Gulbenkian Orchestra/Michel Swierczewski

7.57 Tippett Little Music for String Orchestra - Academy of St Martin/Neville Marriner

8.08 Ginastera Three Argentinian Dances - Santiago Rodriguez (piano)

8.17 Canteloube Songs of the Auvergne - Arleen Auger (soprano) ECO/Yan Pascal Tortelier

(Records)

Contributors

Producer:
Michael Emery

Rachmaninov, orch Respighi Five Etudes-tableaux - LPO/Rozhdestvensky

9.57 Brahms Serenade No 1 (original version for nonet reconstructed by Alan Boustead) - Academy of St Martin Chamber Ensemble

10.43 Debussy, orch Stokowski La Soiree dans Grenade - La Cathedrale engloutie Philharmonia/Geoffrey Simon

10.59 Britten Simple Symphony - Britten String Quartet.

(Records)

England v West Indies Third Cornhill Test at Trent Bridge.
Ball-by-ball commentary on the third day's play by Brian Johnston, Don Mosey and Tony Cozier. Expert summaries from Trevor Bailey, David Lloyd and Mike Hendrick.
Scorer Bill Frindall.

1.05pm News

1.10 A View from the Boundary
Brian Johnston's guest is Max Boyce.

1.30 County Scoreboard.

1.40-6.30 Commentary with further county scores in the tea interval.

(Cassette: A View from the Boundary - Talking Cricket with Brian Johnston, from retailers)

Contributors

Commentator/Interviewer (A View from the Boundary):
Brian Johnston
Commentator:
Don Mosey
Commentator:
Tony Cozier
Summariser:
Trevor Bailey
Summariser:
David Lloyd
Summariser:
Mike Hendrick
Scorer:
Bill Frindall
Interviewee (A View from the Boundary):
Max Boyce
Producer:
Peter Baxter

with Chris de Souza. The final programme in this series features a concert given at the Wigmore Hall in London by the Grieg Trio, winners of this year's Parkhouse Award.

Grieg Andante con moto

Mozart Piano Trio in G (K 564)

Martin Trio on Irish Folk Tunes

Brahms Piano Trio in C, Op 87

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris de Souza
Musicians:
Grieg Trio
Producer:
Sarah Devonald

Three versions of the children's story by Oscar Wilde about a dwarf who died of shame.
Paul McGann reads an abridgment of Wilde's original story.

7.45 Franz Schreker's 1908 ballet Der Geburtstag der Infantin (first UK performance)

8.10 Zemlinsky's 1921 opera The Dwarf (Der Zwerg) in a new English version by Ian Brunskill and Gwen Hughes.

Members of the BBC Singers, chorusmaster Stephen Jackson
BBC SO/Lothar Zagrosek

Contributors

Author:
Oscar Wilde
Reader:
Paul McGann
Librettist:
Ian Brunskill
Librettist:
Gwen Hughes
Singers:
BBC Singers
Chorusmaster:
Stephen Jackson
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Lothar Zagrosek
Producer:
Clive Bennett
Producer:
Martin Cotton
Spanish Infanta:
Christine Whittiesey (soprano)
Ghita, her maid:
Marilyn Hill Smith (soprano)
Dwarf, her 18th birthday present:
Graeme Matheson-Bruce (tenor)
Don Estoban, the head of the royal household:
Nicholas Folwell (baritone)
Infanta's friend:
Gaynor Morgan (soprano)
Infanta's friend:
Carol Smith (soprano)
Infanta's friend:
Jane Webster (soprano)

with Chi-Chi Nwanoku (double-bass)

Beethoven Piano Quartet in E flat, Op 16

Casken Piano Quartet (Birmingham Chamber Music Society commission: first performance)

Schubert Piano Quintet in A (D 667) (Trout)

Contributors

Double-bassist:
Chi-Chi Nwanoku

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