Bax Overture to a Picaresque Comedy
LPO/BRYDEN THOMSON
7.10* Schubert, arr Liszt Der Sterbeglocklein JOHN BINGHAM (piano)
7.18* Fucik Florentine March CZECH PO/VACLAV NEUMANN
7.30 News
7.35 Walton Suite: The First Shoot
LONDON COLLEGIATE BRASSf
JAMES STOBART
7.43* Canteloube Triptyque FREDERICA VON STADE (mezzo-soprano)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA directed by ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA
8.02* Joseph Horovitz Sonatina GERVASE DE PEYER (clarinet) GWENNETH PRYOR (piano)
8.14* Weber, orch Berlioz Invitation to the Dance
VIENNA SO/WILU BOSKOVSKY Records

Sonata in B flat (D 960)
HANS LEYGRAF (piano) (R)

a look ahead to some of the highlights of the coming week's broadcasting on Radio 3 - including music, drama and documentaries - through conversations with some of the performers and producers involved.
Presented by Malcolm Ruthven Producer PETER BERG

Introduced by Paul Vaughan Record Review
Building a Library: Bach's
Coffee and Peasant Cantatas by George Pratt.
John Eliot Gardiner on his recording of Monteverdi's Orfeo which lain Fenlon reviews along with the 1610 Vespers recorded by Harnoncourt and Herreweghe.
Record Release including
Mozart Concerto in D minor (K466)
MALCOLM BILSON (fortepiano) ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS/
JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
An interview with Andreas Holschneider , director of the Archiv label which recently celebrated its 40th anniversary. Two Haydn works recorded on authentic instruments:
Mass in D minor (Nelson) FELICITY LOTT (soprano)
CAROLYN WATKINSON (contralto) MALDWYN DAVIES (tenor)
DAVID WILSON-JOHNSON (bass) ENGLISH CONCERT CHOIR
ENGLISH CONCERT/TREVORPINNOCK. Concerto in c (H xvm 1)
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD (chamber organ)
('Record Review ' is re-broadcast on Wednesday at 2. 00pm)

Robert Hewison talks to people involved at the centre of current controversies in the arts world.

Levon Chilingirian (violin) Mark Butler (violin)
Louise Williams (viola) Philip de Groote (cello) with STEVEN DE GROOTE (piano) Mozart Quartet in G (K 387)
Stephen Dodgson Quartet No 1 (first performance)
2.30* Interval Reading
2.35* Dvorak Piano Quintet in A, Op 81
(Given on 15 July in the Pittville
Pump Room, Cheltenham, as part of the 1987 Cheltenham Festival) BBC Pebble Mill

PHILHARMONlA ORCHESTRA led by PETER THOMAS conducted by GIUSEPPE SINOPOLI Mahler Symphony No 6 in A minor (R)
... a happy partnership of dynamism and dynamic shading, sizzling ensemble-work and superb solos....
SUNDAY TIMES

Introduced by Peter Clayton

A weekly discussion on the arts. Gillian Reynolds (in the Chair) talks with Joan Bakewell, Richard Cork and Jeremy Treglown.
This week's subjects:
Robert Ferguson's radio play "A Sad Pavan for These Distracted Times" on Radio 3; "Fifty Poems" by Ian Hamilton; new paintings by Therese Oulton at Marlborough Fine Art, London; Racine's "Andromache", directed by Jonathan Miller at the Old Vic, London; Adrian Lyne's film "Fatal Attraction".

played by PAUL CROSSLEY
The first of four programmes Franck Prelude, Chorale and Fugue
Tippett Sonata No 1
(R)

The first of four opera broadcasts marking the bicentenary of the birth of the librettist FEUCE romani. Beatrice diTenda Opera in two acts Music by Bellini
(sung in Italian): Records
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
LSO/RICHARD BONYNGE
The action takes place in the Castle of Binasco in 1418. Act
8.45* The Bother with Beatrice The first of four readings from EMILIA ROMANI 'S biography of her husband Felice, Bellini's librettist for Beatrice di Tenda. Translated from the Italian by GRAHAM FAWCETT and read by Diana Olsson
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS
8.50* Act 2
(Donizetti's 'L'Elisir d'Amore'next Sunday)

by LORD BYRON arranged in 12 parts by TERENCE TILLER
Read by Ronald Pickup 10: London
Producer SUSANNA CAPON (R)

directed by DAVID DAVIES
Sofia Gubaidulina Jubilate (first UK performance) Steve Reich
Sextet George Crumb Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos HI)
(Given on 24 August in the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, in association with the Scottish Post Office, as part of the 1987 Edinburgh International Festival)
BBC Scotland

During concert intervals this week, Simon Milner reads from Volume 2 of NIRAD c CHAUDHURI'S autobiography Thy Hand. Great Anarch! India: 1921-52
(published by CHATTO AND windus)