Sonata in B flat, Op 45
FRIEDRICH JURGEN SELLHEIM (cello) ECKART SELLHEIM (piano) String Quartet in E flat, Op 44 No 3
MELOS QUARTET OF STUTTGART Records

(horn)
Sixth of eight programmes
Beethoven Sonata in F, Op 17 with denis MATTHEWS (piano) Mono record
Ibert Trois pieces breves (Mono: 1957)
DENNIS BRAIN WIND ENSEMBLE (R) Schubert Auf dem Strom (Mono) with PETER PEARS (tenor) and NOEL MEWTON-WOOD (piano) (R)
Hindemith Horn Concerto
PHILHARMONIA/THE COMPOSER Record

Spohr Clarinet Concerto No 4 in E minor; KARL LEISTER STUTTGART RSO/RAFAEL FRUHBECK Dussek Harp Sonata in c minor,
Op 2 No 3; ERICA GOODMAN
Prokofiev Concertino, Op 132 LEV YEVGRAFOV (cello)
MOSCOW RSO/ALGIS ZURAITIS
Gade Symphony No 3 in A minor STOCKHOLM SINFONIETTA/ NEEME JÄRVI. Records

Presented by Michael Oliver
Beecham's Strauss: John Lucas surveys 50 years of Sir Thomas Beecham 's association with the music of Richard Strauss.
Classical and Romantic Music: two recent books reviewed by Stephen Dodgson.
Poor and Most Deeply Lamented Wesley: David Byers views Samuel Wesley through his letters and music.
Reader GARARD GREEN Producer ANDREW LYLE
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 2. 00pm)

(piano)
Beethoven Sonata in D, Op 10 No 3
Debussy Studies (Book 2)

The playwright and novelist, John Bowen , reflects on some aspects of language and how we use it.
(Re-broadcast on Friday at 11. 15pm)

Part 2 Brahms
Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel, Op 24 BBC Pebble Mill (R)

Bath International Festival
GUILDHALL STRING ENSEMBLE directed by ROBERT SALTER
Mendelssohn String Symphony No 4 in c minor
Stravinsky Ballet: Apollo

(Given on 5 June in the Guildhall
Banqueting Room, Bath, arranged by the Bath Festival in association with Wessex Newspapers) BBC Bristol

TUCKWELL WIND QUINTET With STEPHEN TRIER (bass-clarinet)
Nielsen Quintet (1922)
Janacek Mladi (1924) (R)

GILLIAN FISHER (soprano)
HELEN KUCHAREK (soprano)
CATHERINE DENLEY (contralto) CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenor)
LONDON HANDEL ORCHESTRA conducted by DENYS DARLOW
Gluck Overture: Ipermestra; Care pupille (La caduta de' giganti)
Galuppi Son prigioniera
(II trionfo della continenza)
Handel Men fedele (Alessandro) Weidemann Concerto in G, Op 2 No 5, for two flutes and strings Galuppi La sorte mia tiranna (II trionfo della continenza)
Handel Return, 0 God of Hosts (Samson); II cor mio (Alessandro)
4.15* Fund for the Support of Decay'd Musicians or Their Families
An account of the origins and history of the Royal Society of Musicians
4.20* Festing Concerto in E minor, Op 3 No 11, for two flutes and strings
Gluck Mai l'amor (La caduta de'giganti)
Galuppi Per pieta, bell' idol mio (11 trionfo della continenza)
Handel The Prince, unable to conceal his pain (Alexander's Feast)
Galuppi Cara , pur mia tu sei (11 trionfo della continenza)
Handel Concerto Grosso in G, Op 6 No 1
(Given on 27 April in association with Deutsche BankAG, as part of this year's London Handel Festival)

by RAYMOND TALLIS
Ludwig Wittgenstein is dying in Cambridge. His mind seethes with fragments of philosophy and of the Carmen Miranda movies he once loved to watch.

First of three programmes NEW IRISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA led by THERESE TIMONEY conducted by JOHN LUBBOCK
MALCOLM PROUD (harpsichord) Linley Overture: Ode on the spirits of Shakespeare (1776) Samuel Wesley Symphony in A (c1790)
Charles Wesley Concerto No 4 in c, Op 2 (1781)
Samuel Wesley Symphony in D (1784)
BBC Northern Ireland (R)

Earlier this year
Richard Ellmann died shortly after completing his definitive biography of Oscar Wilde.
Owen Dudley Edwards reviews this long-awaited book and pays tribute to its author.

led by JAMES CLARK conducted by JAMES LOUGHRAN MICHAEL COLLINS (clarinet) direct from the Colston Hall, Bristol Part 1 Mozart
Clarinet Concerto in A (K622)

2: Fiction and Autobiography In the second of three talks based on his work-in-progress, Laurence Lerner , the poet and Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, examines the borderline between memoir and novel. Is there any essential difference. for instance, between Laurie Lee 's Cider with Rosie and Dylan Thomas 's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog?
('Word-Games' tomorrow at 8.20pm)

Part 2 Mahler
Symphony No 5

by GRAEME FIFE with Edward de Souza as Bartolomeo Tromboncino Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER (R)
NEW SERIES

Secular music of Renaissance Italy: c 1500
A selection of music from the Libroprimo de la Croce, a collection of frottole and canzoni published in Rome in 1526. It contains works by Marchetto Cara and Sebastiano Festa , and gives an idea of Italian vocal music before the flowering of the madrigal

Alexander Balanescu (violin) Elisabeth Perry (violin)
Simon Rowland-Jones (viola) Elizabeth Wilson (cello) Julian Farrell (clarinet) Andrew Ball (piano) Bartok Contrasts
Kurtag Microludes , for string quartet
Laszlo Sary Image

led by HUGH BEAN conducted by FRANK SHIPWAY Donizetti Allegro in c major Gade Novelletter , Op 53
Britten Simple Symphony, Op 4