American Conversations:
John Lewis

with Andrew McGregor.
7.05 Telemann Sinfonia in F
7.27 Beethoven Neue Liebe, neues Leben
7.40 Sibelius Movements from Swanwhite Suite, Op 54
8.05 Rossini Overture:
William Tell
8.32 Liszt Transcendental
Study No 11 (Harmonies du soir)
Liszt Transcendental Study No 12 (Chasse neige)
8.54 Mozart Ergo interest (K143) Discs

The 1960s. Susan Sharpe presents three brilliant and scintillating works from a decade which saw fierce attacks from the critics.
However, Walton described Szell's recording of the second symphony as "a quite stupendous performance from every point of view".
Capriccio Burlesco Florida Philharmonic
Orchestra/James Judd The Twelve
Westminster Singers
City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
Symphony No 2
Cleveland Orchestra/ George Szell Discs

from Belfast with Stephanie Hughes.
Michael Torke Green
Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra/David Zinman
10.15 Debussy En blanc et noir
Stephen Coombs and Christopher Scott (pianos)
10.35 Artist of the Week:
Joan Sutherland (soprano) Handel Let the bright Seraphim (Samson)
Orchestra of the ROH/
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
10.40 Roussel
The Spider's Banquet
Ulster Orchestra, conductor
Takuo Yuasa
11.10 Martinu Oboe Concerto
Ulster Orchestra, conductor
Takuo Yuasa
11.25 Gounod Jewel Song (Faust)
Joan Sutherland (soprano) Orchestra of the ROH/
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
11.40 Milhaud
Le boeuf sur le toit
Ulster Orchestra, conductor
Takuo Yuasa

Repeated from yesterday 11.30pm

Keith Swallow and John Wilson (pianos) play piano music for four hands.
Liszt Hamlet
Milhaud
Scaramouche, Op 165b
Faure Prelude, fileuse and adagio (Pelleas et Melisande) Stravinsky Petrushka (First scene)

The Song Tree: Music
Course 1. The Starcatcher
2.15 Together Stories
2.30 Dance Workshop
2.50 Poetry Corner

Roderick Chadwick (piano) Clare Selby (piano) lain Simcock (organ/piano) Suzanne Godfrey (flute) Andrea Hallam (violin)
Choristers of Westminster
Cathedral, director
James O'Donnell
Bizet Jeux d'enfants for piano duet. Op 22
Britten Friday afternoons for children's voices and piano, Op 7
Gemini variations for flute, violin and piano duet. Op 73 Schubert Psalm 23 (Gott ist mein Hirt) (D706)
Britten Missa brews for boys' voices and organ, Op 63

Africa's top musicians discuss life, art and music with Lucy Duran and perform live in the studio. The final programme features Abdel Karim El Kabli, a Sudanese poet, musician and composer. An expert on Sudanese music and folklore, he also plays the oud, or lute.
A Heavy Entertainment production

Today, Tommy Pearson challenges Wayne Marshall to take a simple tune and harmonize it in a thousand different ways.

Richard Baker presents arts news and plays a selection of music, including
Beethoven, arr Liszt First movement, Allegro con brio (Symphony No 5)
6.03 Rameau
Overture (Les Boreades)
6.30 Verdi De' miei bollenti spiriti (La Traviata)
7.03 Shostakovich
Waltz and Scherzo (Ballet Suite No 4)
Producer Ray Abbott

With Michael Berkeley. Thomas Randle (tenor)
Stephen Tees (viola)
Joyful Company of Singers. chorus-master Peter
Broadbent
City of London Sinfonia, conductor Mark Elder
John Buller Mr Purcell's
Maggot (world premiere)
Purcell, ed Britten Chacony Britten Lachrymae for viola and strings
John Buller Mr Purcell's
Maggot Haydn Symphony No 80 in D minor
A Floating Earth production

The last of five talks by Israel Zamir, about the complex relationship he formed with the Nobel prize-winning novelist
Isaac Bashevis Singer , his father, from whom he was separated as a boy.
Israel has become the translator of his father's works into Hebrew. Are he and his father finally to be reconciled after many differences and misunderstandings?
Series producer Louise Greenberg

A concert recorded at
St George's, Brandon Hill , Bristol.
Haydn String Quartet in C. Op 33 No 3 (Bird)
String Quartet in F minor, Op 20 No 5
Webern Langsammer Satz Haydn String Quartet in D minor, Op 76 No 2 (Fifths) A Classic Arts Production ftpf

The Venetian dramatist
Carlo Goldoni died 200 years ago after a career of 100 plays in every style. He transformed theatre-making. introducing a new naturalism to the stage, for which he was both loved and loathed. From Venice.
Joe Farrell tells his story.
Producer Tim Dee

Alwynne Pritchard introduces a late-night sample of contemporary sounds including
Ian Wilson 's Bane and Ivan
Hewett's Dialogue and Elegy, featuring Madeleine Mitchell (violin), with Andrew Ball (piano), and organ works by Morton Feldman and Giacinto
Scelsi played by Friedemann Herz.
Producer Alan Hall