American Conversations:
Hugh Sidey

with Richard Osborne.
Boccherini Cello Concerto
No 6 in D (G479)
Mischa Maisky (cello) Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
7.22 Hamilton Harty A John Field Suite
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor
Malcolm Sargent
7.42 Chopin Ballade No 3 in Aflat, Op 47
Miceal O'Rourke (piano)
7.52 Mendelssohn String Quintet in B flat, Op 87 Hausmusik
8.23 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 2 in C minor (Little Russian)
St Louis Symphony
Orchestra, conductor
Leonard Slatkin

A survey of Richard Strauss Lieder for voice and piano by Stephen Walsh. John Warrack on new discs of Classical and early
Romantic chamber music, including Mozart String Quintets on period instruments.
Revised repeat tomorrow
11.15pm

Beethoven String Quartet in F, Op 18 No 1
Petersen Quartet
10.45
Spohr Octet in E, Op 32
Academy of St Martin Chamber Ensemble

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Dutch recorder player Frans Bruggen was recording uncharted areas of the early music repertoire. Teldec have just reissued all these performances on their Das Alte Werk label, and Jan Smaczny has been listening to them.
Producers Clive Portbury and Patrick Lambert Discs

Personalities from all walks of life share their musical choices with composer
Michael Berkeley. Today's guest is the writer and film critic of the Independent Adam Mars-Jones , whose musical taste ranges from Bach to Captain Beefheart. A Classic Arts production
FAIREST ISLE

In the fourth of six programmes, Leslie Forbes goes in search of leeks for the traditional Welsh dish
Cawl. In Newport she meets Bobby Freeman and Meryl Roberts and learns the art of one-pot cooking . Producer Emma Kingsley

(soprano)
Graham Johnson (piano) A recital given last year in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London. Purcell Lord, what is man?
Evening Hymn
Britten Canticle I: My beloved is mine
Purcell What can we poor females do?; Sweeter than roses
Britten Let the florid music praise; Fish in the unruffled lakes; As it is, plenty
Duparc La vie antérieure; Lamento; Chanson triste; L'invitation au voyage; Au pays ou se fait la guerre Hahn Le printemps;
Infidelite; C'est tres villain d'etre infidèle; Y'a des arbres; La dernière valse

BBC Philharmonic conductor Gunther Herbig Schubert Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished)
Bruckner Symphony No 9 in D minor
Concert sponsored by Bain Hogg

Tommy Pearson presents four weekly Music Machine specials.
1: Ornamentation.
Producer Christina Pritchard

with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Alan Hall Discs
ADDRESS: Jazz Record
Requests, BBC Radio 3.
Broadcasting House. London W1A4WW

Ivan Hewett talks to
David Owen Norris about his transcriptions of piano improvisations recorded in the 1920s by Eigar. Also, a review of a new book on the history of the Royal
Philharmonic Society. Producer Anthony Sellors
Repeated tomorrow at 12.15pm
FAIREST ISLE

Humphrey Carpenter presents three operas by Benjamin Britten this week, beginning with English National Opera's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Composed for the 1960 Aldeburgh Festival, Britten's opera sticks faithfully to Shakespeare's story of lovers, fairies and rustics and their comic woodland antics and accidents. The countertenor King Oberon and his coloratura Queen Tytania prompt the events of the magical night and Britten's equally magical music. Sung in English.
Trinity Boys' Choir
English National Opera
Orchestra/Steuart Bedford Acts 1 and 2 8.10 Aspects of Britten A Very British Britten The first of four programmes.
Jeremy J Beadle looks at the way Britten and Peter Pears adapted Shakespeare in pursuit of their personal ideals of innocence and love.
8.30 Act 3
Production sponsored by KPMG Billy Budd Monday 7.25pm

In the programme that bridges the arts and sciences, Steve Jones , Professor of Genetics at
University College, London, explores our fascination with worlds within worlds. Producer Anne McNaught

Douglas Boyd (oboe)
Robin O'Neill (bassoon) lain Burnside (piano)
Boutry Interférences for bassoon and piano
Dutilleux Oboe Sonata
Jolivet Sonatine for oboe and bassoon
Poulenc Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano

Brian Morton talks to musicians taking part in the festival and introduces performances from the Guildhall: French pianist
Sophia Domancich leading a trio with Paul Rogers (bass) and Tony Levin (drums), the Chainsaw Sisters (cellists
Kathryn Locke and Tanera Dawkins ) and a solo set by pianist Howard Riley.
Producer Derek Drescher
More jazz from Bath next Saturday.