The New Curiosity Shop: Something Succulent

with Andrew Lyle , including at approximately
7.00 C P E Bach
Symphony in A (Wq182 No 4) Camerata Bem/ Thomas Fiiri
7.30 Dvorak
String Quartet in F, Op 96 (American)
Janacek Quartet
8.20 Bizet
Au fond du temple saint (Lespecheurs de perles)
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) National PO/
Robin Stapleton
8.35 Haydn
Symphony No 78 in C minor
Orpheus CO. Discs

The Mighty Handful presented by Roderick Swanston.
4: Not Being National. Rimsky-Korsakov At the Tomb, Op 61 USSR Academic SO/ Yevgeny Svetlanov
Borodin Scherzo in A flat Margaret Fingerhut (piano)
Balakirev Symphony No 1 in C
Philharmonia Orchestra/ Yevgeny Svetlanov. Discs

Will the real Hungarian folk song please stand up? Bartok
Hungarian Sketches Philharmonia
Hungarica/Antal Dorati
10.11 Ferenc Erkel
Hunyadi Laszb : Act 1 Finale Andras Molnar (tenor) Male Chorus of the Hungarian People's Army Hungarian State Opera Chorus and Orchestra/ Janos Kovacs
10.14 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 6 in D (Carnival in Pest) Budapest SO/ Andras Korodi
10.27 Artist of the Week:
Murray Perahia (piano)
Bartok Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs
10.37
Kodaly Psalmus Hungaricus Lajos Kozma (tenor)
Wandsworth School Boys' Choir
Brighton Festival Chorus LSO/Istvan Kertesz
11.00 Kurtag 12
Microludes: Hommage a Mihaly Andras Arditti Quartet
11.09 Bartok
Suite: Out of Doors
Murray Perahia (piano)
11.23 arr Kodaly The Peacock
Male Chorus of the Hungarian People's
Army/Zoltan Vasarhelyi
11.26 Kodaly
Variations on a Hungarian folk song (The Peacock) Hungarian State
Orchestral Antal Dorati

NEWTwo programmes of music for the church, court and tavern by Purcell and his contemporaries.
1: Sinners and Saints
Discs

England v Australia
Ball-by-ball commentary on the first day's play after lunch in the First Comhill Test at Old Trafford by Brian Johnston , Jonathan Agnew ,
Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Neville Oliver. With expert comment from
Trevor Bailey and David Lloyd.
3.45-4.00 County Talk Simon Hughes chairs the first in a series of discussions with Graeme Fowler , Nick Cook and Mark Nicholas.

A selection of music on disc.

The second in a series of concerts from the festival given last July in Birmingham and London begins with the Aref Ensemble from Iran directed by Parviz Meshkatian. Their programme comprises an Introduction; Avaz singing and improvisation to 14th-century poetry; and a final Tasnif.
At 8.10 the Rustavi
Choir from Georgia perform chorales and wedding songs from different Georgian regions. (A BBC/South Bank Centre/ Sounds Like Birmingham co-promotion in association with BT)

The fifth of six
Graham Greene travel sketches.
Before the Attack
1954, and strange and disturbing sights at Dien Bien Phu on the Laos border....
Reader David Horovitch.

Bom in 1957 in Hunan, China, composer Tan Dun now lives and works in New York. He conducts a programme of his own music, which synthesises eastern and western influences.
Orchestral Theatre
On Taoism
Death and Fire - Dialogue with Paul Klee
BBC Scottish SO

Roisin McAuley presents tonight's programme, which includes a first-night review from Stratford of The Merchant of Venice. Producer Nicki Paxman

Margaret Price (soprano) James Lockhart (piano) Thea King (clarinet)
Schoenberg Das Buch der hangenden Garten Schubert Das Lied im Grunen; Herbst, Der
Winterabend
Der Hirt aufdem Felsen