With Penny Gore .
Marc-Antoine Charpentier Les Plaisirs de Versailles
Soloists, Les Arts Florissants, conductor William Christie
7.05 Dvorak Cypresses (excerpts) New Helsinki Quartet
7.32 Cherubini Overture: Les Deux
Journees
City of Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Lawrence Foster
7.44 Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra, conductor Alexander Lazarev
8.05 Saint-Saens Sarabande et
Rigaudon
London Philharmonic, conductor Geoffrey Simon
8.18 James Paisible Airs in the Comedy of the Humours of Sir John Falstaff
London Oboe Band
8.44 Turina Piano Quartet in A minor, Op 67
Menuhin Festival Quartet

With Catriona Young.
Smetana Sarka (Ma Vlast) Czech Philharmonic, conductor Rafael Kubelik
9.10 Faure Fantasy, Op 79 Paul Edmund-Davies (flute), John Alley (piano)
9.16 Faure Mirages , Op 113 Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone), Gerard Wyss (piano)
9.30 Elgar String Quartet in E minor Brodsky Quartet Discs

Bath International Music Festival
With Nicola Heywood
Thomas, from the Brunswick
Room at the Guildhall, Bath. There are live contributions from the Pirasti
Trio, who play piano trios by Haydn and Mendelssohn. Radio 3 Artist of the Week Imogen Cooper joins Alfred Brendel in Mozart's Concerto in E flat,
K365, and accompanies baritone
Wolfgang Holzmair in some Schumann lieder. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Nicholas Cleobury , continue the survey of 20th-century concertos for orchestra with one by Michael Tippett.

Songs, Cantatas and Dances
With Nicholas Anderson. "As soon as Apollo saw Daphne, he fell in love with her.... he praised her fingers, hands and arms, bare almost to the shoulder. Her hidden charms he imagined lovelier still ..." (Ovid)
Singe, Seele, Gottzum Preise , HWV206 Elisabeth Speiser (soprano), Members of the Winterthur Baroque Quintet
Meine Seele Hort im Sehen, HWV207 Elisabeth Speiser (soprano), Jaap Schroder (violin), Kathi Gohl (cello), Johann Sonnleitner (harpsichord)
Italian Cantata: La Terra e Liberata
Collegium Musicum 90, director Simon Standage
Repeated next Thursday 11.30pm

A concert from Manchester.
Gillian Weir (organ)

Bach Organ Sonata in D minor, BWV527
Liszt Fantasy and Fugue on the Chorale "Ad Nos, ad Salutarem Undam"
Guy Bovet Salamanca

Grand Guignol or High Drama? Gordon Stewart presents four programmes which take the lid off the hotpot of Italian verismo - its seething passions, heart-throbbing emotions and lurid violence, as expressed through some of the best sets of vocal chords in the business.
1: Singers, Poets, Clowns and Revolutionaries. Featuring excerpts from Tosca, La Gioconda, La
Boheme, I Pagliacci and Andrea Chenier , with singers including Caruso, Del Monaco, Pavarotti,
Bergonzi, Gobbi, Callas and Tebaldi. Producer Adam Gatehouse

Conductor John Carewe ,
Janet Hilton (clarinet) Torke Ash
Copland Clarinet Concerto
Britten Courtly Dances (Gloriana)
Schumann Symphony No 4 in D minor Repeat

A recital by the Britten-Pears Ensemble and lain Burnside (piano). Prokofiev Overture on Jewish Themes
Frank Martin
Piano Quintet Strauss, arr Schoenberg Emperor Waltz Repeated from yesterday 10pm

Fretwork
Not all music for viol consort was written several hundred years ago. Verity Sharp finds out why modern composers such as Simon Bainbridge choose to write for Fretwork.

Mairi Nicolson celebrates
Music Live 97 with an edition from the foyer of the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Her guests include organist Gillian Weir , American baritone Thomas Hampson , and double-bass player and composer Barry Guy. Live music is provided by the ceilidh band White Water, the New Ensemble from the Royal Northern College of Music and Barry Guy himself.
5.50 Barber 0 Boundless,
Boundless Evening
Thomas Hampson (baritone), John Browning (piano)
6.05 Louis Andriessen On Jimmy Yancey RNCM New Ensemble, conductor Clark Rundell
6.20 Guilmant Scherzo Symphonique in C, Op 55 No 2
Gillian Weir (organ)
6.30 Barry Guy Five Fizzles
The Composer (double bass)' Producer Paul Hindmarsh
MUSIC LIVE 97

Mairi Nicolson introduces the first of this year's Music
Live 97 orchestral concerts from
Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.
Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier ,
Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Gillian Weir (organ)
Walton Crown Imperial
Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor
8.10 A View from the Bridgewater
In the first of two programmes Gillian Clarke reads a poem anticipating the move from her usual rural home in Wales to the city centre of Manchester where, during the week of Music Live 97, she is poet-in-residence at the Bridgewater Hall.
8.30 Bizet Suite: Carmen
Saint-Saens Symphony No 3 in C minor (Organ)
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INDIA SEASON

4: The View from Inside. Bengali author Upamanyu Chatterjee 's
English, August is an irreverent tale of a young Indian's coming of age, posted to a remote civil-service job in India's north-eastern tribal belt.
Noah Richler talks to the author in Bombay, where he works for the Indian administrative service and is in charge of the city's slum development programme.

Radio 3 Early Music Young Artists Showcase 1997
Chris de Souza introduces the third concert from this year's event, given last month at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Countertenor
Robin Blaze is accompanied on harpsichord and organ by Andrew Smith in music by Purcell, Handel and Byrd. Repeated Monday 4.15pm

Patrick Wright talks about money, imagination and the making of modern culture with the distinguished historian John Brewer. His new work The Pleasures of the Imagination - English Culture and the 18th Century examines the role of entrepreneurs and audiences, radicals and reviewers in shaping notions of high culture and taste which remain influential today. Producer Abigail Appleton

With Rodney Milnes.
4: The Also-Rans. Including excerpts from Zigeunerliebe, Eva, Frasquita, Paganini and Schone 1st die Welt. Repeated from last Thursday

In the second of two conversations with Alyn Shipton , Jesse Stone is joined by his wife Evelyn McGhee Stone, the vocalist with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm.

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Choral Evensong from Manchester Cathedral
Repeated from yesterday 4pm
2.00 Prague RSO/Vladimir Valek
Janacek The Ballad of Blanik HillM
Gemrot Three Adagios Ravel Boléro
3.00 Schools
3.00 Music Workshop 3.20 Let's
Move 3.40 Words Alive 3.50 Radio
Showcase 3.55 First Steps in Drama 4.10 Drama Workshop 4.30 Ghostwriter 4.40 Scottish Resources
(10-12)
5.00 Sequence