American Conversations:
David Brower

with Anthony Burton. Boieldieu
Harp Concerto in C
7.27 Haydn Sir Watkin's Dream
7.32 Shostakovich
Elegy; Polka
7.40 Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor
8.11 Delibes
Bell Song (Lakme)
8.20 McEwen A Solway Symphony

Berlioz's Les nuits d'ete by Roger Nichols. Lionel Salter and Michael Oliver in discussion about new releases of chamber and instrumental music, including Mozart string quartets, Chabrier piano music and the string quartets of Hugh Wood.

Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor (K546) Eder Quartet
10.25 Faure Cello Sonata in D minor, Op 109
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Pascal Devoyon (piano)
10.46 Hugh Wood String Quartet No 2
Chilingirian Quartet 11.03 Chabrier Trois valses romantiques
Kathryn Stott and Elizabeth Burley (pianos)
11.19 Brahms String Quartet in A minor, Op 51 No 2
Borodin Quartet
Producers Clive Portbury and Patrick Lambert Discs
Revised repeat tomorrow
11.15pm

The series in which personalities from all walks of life talk to composer Michael Berkeley about their musical tastes, revealing some fascinating enthusiasms, beliefs and experiences.
Today's guest is the actress Harriet Walter.
Her love of music dates back to her schooldays when, inspired by Prokofiev's brilliant score, she privately honed her budding acting technique on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
A Classic Arts production
FAIREST ISLE

1: Cullen Skink
A- "good haul" may be a thing of the past but, as Leslie Forbes discovers, almost the entire village of Cullen is still prepared to wait for Katie Findlay 's smoked fish soup.
Producer Cathy Drysdale

with David Mellor.
Alfred Brendel remembers his mentor, the Swiss pianist Edwin Fischer. With music including Bach Fantasia in A minor
(BWV 922) (1937)
Keyboard Concerto in F minor (BWV 1056) (excerpt) Edwin Fischer Chamber
Orchestra (1938)
The Well-Tempered Clavier (excerpts) (1933-35) Beethoven
Piano Trio in B flat, Op 97 (Archduke) (excerpt)
Fischer/Schneiderhan/ Mainardi Trio (1952)
Piano Sonata in A flat, Op 110 (excerpts) (1938) Schubert
Diejunge Nonne (0828) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) (1952)
Impromptus (D899)
Nos 24 (1938) Rpt Discs

Junior Guildhall School of Music and Drama String Ensemble
Lennox Berkeley
Serenade for string orchestra, Op 12 John Woolrich
Ulysses Awakes
Elgar Serenade for string orchestra, Op 20
National Youth Wind
Orchestra of Great Britain
Strauss Serenade in E flat, Op 7 Stravinsky Octet Adam Gorb
Scenes from Breughel Weill Kleine
Dreigroschenmusik
Presented by Sarah Beck.

with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Alan Hall Discs

Presented by Ivan Hewett , who this week talks to
John McCabe about the British premiere of his fourth symphony, and looks at a new book on Elgar's sacred music.
Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
Repeated tomorrow 12.15pm

Patrick Gallois (flute) Fabrice Pierre (harp) Bartok, transcr Anna Suite paysanne hongroise; Romanian Folkdances Canteloube, arr Gallois
Pierre La bergère des champs; La delaissee; Trois bourrees (Chants d'Auvergne)
Bome, arr Pierre Carmen Fantasy

from the Royal Festival Hall, a concert including a performance of Manuel de Falla's opera La Vida Breve. Falla Homenajes conductor Enrique Diemecke
7.50 Falla and the Folk
Michael Oliver examines the complex relationship between Manuel de Falla and folk music.
8.10 Falla La Vida Breve
Set in Granada around
1900, the story concerns a gypsy girl, Salud. She loves Paco, who pretends to love her in return but in reality plans to marry Carmela.
Salud discovers the truth, denounces Paco at his wedding and then, grief-stricken, falls dead.
Pilar Rioja Flamenco Group London Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra
FAIREST ISLE

Transformations In British
Culture
Sir Anthony Caro delivers the third of six Radio 3/RSA lectures before an invited audience at the Royal
Society of Arts. He talks about the impact of American artists on the development of British sculpture and asks if there is a distinctive British voice.
John Tusa chairs questions and discussion from the audience.
Producer Abigail Appfeton

Mozart Divertimento in B flat (K240) Disc

This American pianist and composer is probably better known for his work with Roberta Flack and James
Brown and as the musical director for James Taylor than as a jazz musician. But the main thrust of his work is now in jazz. For his British tour this year, he assembled an all-star band.
Chris Parker introduces a recording of the concert
Grolnick gave at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in January, and during the interval talks to him about his diverse career.
Producer Derek Drescher