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7.00 Haydn
Symphony No 79 in F Vienna CO/
Ernst Maerzendorfer
7.50 Francaix
Quartet for flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon
Members of the Aulos
Wind Quintet
8.00 Britten Overture:
PaulBunyan
LSO/Steuart Bedford
8.40 Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No 1
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
LSO/ Andre Previn. Discs

The Mighty Handful presented by Roderick Swanston.
5: Twilight
Cui Suite Concertante
Takako Nishizaki (violin) Hong Kong PO/
Kenneth Schermerhom
Rimsky-Korsakov Mozart and Salieri Alexander Fedin (tenor) Yevgeny Nesterenko (bass)
Vera Chasovennaya (piano)
Sergei Girshenko (violin) Bolshoi Theatre
Orchestra/Mark Ermler Discs

Schumann Overture:
Julius Caesar
10.19 Dvorak
Slavonic Rhapsody No 2 BBC Concert Orchestra/ Nicholas Cleobury
10.33 Artist of the Week:
Murray Perahia (piano) Chopin Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor
New York PO/ Zubin Mehta
11.13 Roussel Serenade for flute, harp and string trio Melos Ensemble
11.30 Charpentier Incidental music:
Andromede
London Baroque/ Charles Medlam
11.44 Saint-Saens
Ballet: Javotte
BBC Concert Orchestra/ Barry Wordsworth

2: Singers All
Music for the home, tavern and church by Purcell and his contemporaries. Discs

England v Australia
Ball-by-ball commentary on the second day's play of 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.
Scorer Bill Frindall.
3.45-4.00 The
Lancashire Leagues
Dave Edmundson reviews early-season events in these highly competitive leagues.

A selection of music on disc.

conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Paul Crossley (piano)
Recorded last November in the Konzerthaus during the orchestra's visit to
Budapest and Vienna. Alun Hoddinott
Passaggio, Op 94 Bartok
Piano Concerto No 3
Elgar
Symphony No 2 in Eflat

The last of six
Graham Greene travel sketches.
Twenty-four Hours in Metro-Land
The author looks at a nameless but wholly distinctive English county.
Reader David Horovitch.
Series producer Duncan Minshull

Robert Saxton 's piece, commissioned by the BBC, in a performance by the artists for whom it was written, the BBC Singers, conductor John Poole.

Truls Mork (cello) Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)

Grieg Cello Sonata in A minor, Op 36

Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor

Tchaikovsky Pezzo capriccioso

"Spain in the early fifties was a source of dread and mystery. Bracketed behind the Pyrenees, its unliberated calendar lagged two decades - or was it two centuries? - behind ours ... To go there suggested a mixture of naivete, greed and ghoulishness...."
A piece for radio in two parts written and narrated by Frederic Raphael.
1954. A young man broods on the meaning of apparently casual encounters while travelling in Spain, which culminate in the garden of the Alhambra by moonlight with the Jewish ministers and philosophers of the Moorish era.
Producer Louise Purslow (Part 2 next Friday)

A mix of complex written scores and free improvisation from last weekend's London
Musicians' Collective
Festival of Experimental Music. Pianist Ian Pace plays many notes in Richard Barrett Tract, Part 1 and James Dillon 's Spleen.
Percussionist Richard
Benjafield attacks
Globokar's Touche and Tanguy's Towards. And Lindsay Cooper (bassoon and keyboards) lets it all hang out, improvising with Maggie Nichols (vocals) and Michelle Buirette (accordion). Presented by Philip Tagney. Producer Alan Hall