Adrian Edwards with the morning programme of music, news, weather and travel.

Donizetti
"A Prodigious Madness" 4: Martyrs, regiments and recluses, 1839-1840
Extracts from Poliuto, La Fille du Regiment and La Favorita, with casts including Katia Ricciarelli , Jose Carreras ,
June Anderson , Alfredo Kraus and Luciano Pavarotti.
Jonathan Adams reads from the composer's letters.

conductor Stephen Kovacevich
Beethoven Symphony No 6 in F (Pastoral)

The Fifth Comhill Test at
The Oval.
Ball-by-ball commentary on the first day's play by Brian Johnston , Jonathan Agnew and Christopher Martin-Jenkins , with expert comment by Trevor Bailey and Mike Hendrick. Scorer: Bill Frindall

1.10
The World Cup 1987
Peter Baxter looks back at the events of the fourth World Cup.
1.30
County Scoreboard
1.40
Commentary
3.45
County Talk
Peter Baxter discusses the County scene with Nick Cook , Graeme Fowler and Simon Hughes.
4.00
Commentary including close of play summary.

A selection of music on records.

live from the Royal Albert Hall , London. Nikolai Demidenko (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk. Nikolai Demidenko , a former pupil of Dmitri Bashkirov at the Moscow
Conservatoire, makes his eagerly awaited Prom debut in Rachmaninov's last concerto.
Lutoslavski's "book" has four chapters for large orchestra, linked by more thinly scored interludes. It is a more unified work than the composer originally intended.
Musorgsky
A Night on the Bare Mountain
Lutoslawski
Livre pour orchestre
8.05 Nikolai Demidenko in conversation with Gerard McBumey.
8.25 Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor
Sibelius
Symphony No 7 in C

by James Joyce.
The third instalment of a 16-part adaptation. Reader Stephen Rea.

Martin Roscoe and Ronan O'Hora (pianos)
Schoenberg, arr Webern
Five Pieces, Op 16 Busoni
Fantasia contrappuntistica

Mike Westbrook 's work as a composer ranges from opera, ballet and a saxophone concerto to extended compositions for jazz orchestra and shorter pieces for trio.
In the first of eight programmes, Geoffrey Smith talks to
Mike Westbrook about his early days in Plymouth and London, and about his first album, Celebration, which was recorded in the late
60s.

Suk
About Mother
The Ripening
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