American Conversations:
Arthur Schlesinger

Paul Guinery contrasts two substantial French choral works from our own time with music of the Baroque and earlier.
7.02 Leclair Sonata in D minor, Op 4 No 3 Purcell Quartet
7.15 Gibbons 0 Thou the Central Orb
King's College Choir,
Cambridge, London Early
Music Group/Philip Ledger
7.20 Tallis, arr Kronos
Quartet Spem in alium Kronos String Quartet
7.30 Bach Partita No 2 in C minor (BWV 826)
Malcolm Proud (h'chord)
7.50 Poulenc Mass in G
BBC Singers/Jane Glover
8.10 Mozart Fantasy in D minor (K397)
Christian Zacharias (piano)
8.15Janacek Taras Bulba
Philharmonia/Libor Pesek
8.45 Milhaud Cantate de la guerre
BBC Singers/Jane Glover Producer Piers Burton-Page

Clementi Overture in D
9.11 Delius On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
9.18 Artist of the Week: Felicity Lott (soprano)
Purcell, arr Britten Sound the trumpet; Lost is my quiet
9.24 Copland Damon cubano
9.31 Cimarosa, arr Benjamin Oboe Concerto in C minor
9.42 Monteverdi Exsulta
Filia
9.48 Ethel Smyth
Overture: The Wreckers
9.58 Messiaen 0 Sacrum
Convivium
10.04 Strauss Suite: Der
Rosenkavalier
10.26 Muffat Concerto
Grosso in A minor (Bona Nova)
10.37 Composer of the Week: Beethoven Mir ist so wunderbar (Fidelio)
10.42 Mozart Quintet in E flat for piano and wind (K452)
11.08 Debussy Rapsodie
11.19 Hoist St Paul 's Suite
11.30 Gounod Mignon; Rêverie
11.37 Bizet Suite: Roma
Producer Edward Blakeman. Discs

Nancy Gustafson (soprano) Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth Berlioz Overture: Roman
Carnival
Tchaikovsky Letter Scene (Eugene Onegin ) Saint-Saens Piano
Concerto No 2 in G minor
Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade

The second of two concerts from the Haydn-Boccherini Festival at the Wigmore Hall, London.
Mosaïques Quartet Jose Miguel Moreno (lute/guitar)
Haydn Lute Quartet in D (Hill 6)
Boccherini String Quartet in E flat (G243)
3.25 Interval reading
3.30 Haydn String
Quartet in F, Op 77 No 2 Boccherini Guitar
Quintet in D (del
Fandango) (G448)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor Jacek Kaspszyk Dimitry Sitkovetsky (violin) Mahler Adagietto (Symphony No 5)
Bartok Violin Concerto
No
Elgar Polonia

Lisa Jardine 's guest is psychoanalyst Adam Phillips , author of On
Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored. Plus other excitement from the arts week.
Producer Beaty Rubens

(piano)
Bach French Suite No 5 in G (BWV 816)
Nancarrow Prelude and Blues
Satie Sports et divertissements
Debussy Six Etudes

Elgar's unfinished Third Symphony has always aroused considerable curiosity. This is the story of that work, from its commission by the BBC at the instigation of George Bernard Shaw , to the struggle by Elgar to overcome his increasing doubts and concerns.
Specially written by David Pownall to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the composer's death, the play also includes some of the surviving musical fragments, played on violia, violin or piano.
Music performed by Michael Schofield and Tony Sellors Director Martin Jenkins

Presented by Judith Weir. To mark Robin Holloway 's' 50th birthday year, his former pupil and fellow composer Rupert Bawden conducts the Nash
Ensemble in two works spanning Holloway's career, Garden Music, Op 1 and Winter Music (1992). The programme also includes two works by Bawden himself, Wanderjahr and Morike-Lieder. With
Eileen Hulse (soprano). Producer Andrew Kurowski

Presented by Brian Wright. Schmidt The Book with Seven Seals
Peter Schreier (St John) Robert Hall (Voice of the Lord)
Sylvia Greenberg (soprano) Carolyn Watkinson (contralto)
Thomas Moser (tenor) Kurt Rydl (bass)
Vienna State Opera Chorus ORF Symphony Orchestra, conductor Lothar Zagrosek Schmidt set the biblical version of the apocalypse so that it would be " ...as relevant today as it was at its creation, 18 and a half centuries ago."
Brian Wright talks to writer and broadcaster Leo Black about Schmidt's oratorio, which was composed in the turbulent years leading up to the Second World War.
Producer Tim Thorne Discs