Presented by Stephen Walsh
The Earliest Operas: DENIS ARNOLD outlines the early 17th-century Italian forms of academic, court and madrigal opera, and religious drama
SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT : Music Weekly talks to the composer about his music and his new piano sonata (to be broadcast from Bath next Saturday)
Franck and Tchaikovsky: two new guides reviewed by PETER DICKINSON
Editor KEITH HORNER