With Humphrey Carpenter , including
6.10 Dvorak American Suite in A
RPO, conductor Antal Dorati
7.00 Morton Gould American Salute
(When Johnny Comes Marching Home) Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Eugene Ormandy
7.50 Ives He Is There! Mary Ann Hart (mezzo), Philip Bush (piano)
8.40 Gershwin An American in Paris Dallas SO, director Andrew Litton
Producer Edwina Wolstencroft

With Jonathan Swain.
9.00 Building a Library
Stephen Plaistow considers the available recordings of Mozart's piano sonatas. David Benedict reviews new opera releases, including Gounod's Romeo et Juliette with Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna , Rossini's // Turco in Italia with Cecilia Bartoli , Weber's Oberon with Inga Nielsen and Deon van der Walt, and Pacini's Maria, Regina d'lnghilterra with Nelly Miricioiu. Revised repeat tomorrow 11.45pm
10.15 Record Release
Weber Oberon (Overture; Ozean, du Ungeheuer!)
Rezia INGA NIELSEN (soprano) German Symphony Orchestra, conductor Marek Janowski
10.35 Gounod Romeo et Juliette
(end of Act 2)
Toulouse Capitole Choir and Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson
10.57 Rossini // Turco in Italia (end of Act 1)
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, conductor Riccardo Chailly
11.15 Reissues
The budget label Naxos takes a further plunge into the historical recordings market with the first releases in their Toscanini Concert
Edition. Robert Cowan assesses these recordings by the great Italian maestro, including music by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Debussy.
Producers Clive Portbury and Susan Kenyon E-MAIL: record.review@bbc.co.uk
DISC DETAILS: see BBC1 Ceefax page 651

Michael Berkeley 's guest is sculptor Sir Anthony Caro , who began his career in the 1950s as assistant to
Henry Moore. His own work now features in galleries and museums all over the world, including the current exhibition at the National Gallery in London. His musical passions range from vocal and instrumental music by Mozart, Haydn, Schubert and Brahms to a British folk song. Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm

Catherine Bott (soprano), Trio Sonnerie Handel Cantata: Armida Abbandonata ;
Trio Sonata in G minor, Op 2 No 5; Cantata: Figlio d'Alte Speranze
Vivaldi Trio Sonata in 0 minor, Op 1 No 12 (La Follia)
Repeated from Monday

David Mellor explores the recorded legacy of artists of the past. A Very British Compromise
The British horn school was born a century ago when the great Brain family applied German teaching to the narrow-bore French instrument.
Michael Thompson traces the evolution of their singing British style. Mozart Concerto No 3 in E flat, K447
Aubrey Brain, BBC SO/Adrian Boult R Strauss Concerto No 2 in E flat
Gottfried von Freiburg, Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestra/Karl
Bohm Schumann Adagio and Allegro, Op 70 Georges Barboteu , Genevieve Joy (piano) Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings Peter Pears (tenor) Dennis Brain , Boyd Neel String Orchestra, The Composer
Mozart Concerto No 2 in E flat, K41 7
Dennis Brain , Philharmonia
Orchestra, conducted by von Karajan R Strauss Concerto No 1 in E flat
Alan Civil , Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Rudolf Kempe Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings Peter Pears (tenor)
Barry Tuckwell , English Chamber Orchestra, The Composer Dukas Villanelle
Michael Thompson , Philip Fowke (piano) Discs. Repeat

Six programmes in which pianist and broadcaster lain Burnside looks behind the scenes into the rehearsal room. His collaborator this week is soprano Barbara Bonney , who sings music by Copland.
Producer Adam Gatehouse

In the first of three programmes,
Andrew Manze introduces music by composers from 17th-century Italy and performs it with fellow members of Romanesca and soprano Clara Sanabras. Including music by Rognoni, Cima, Fontana, Monteverdi, Corradini, Merula and Caccini. Producer Lindsay Kemp

With Geoffrey Smith.
Producer Derek Drescher Discs
ADDRESS: Jazz Record Requests. BBC Radio 3. Broadcasting House. London W1A 4WW FAX: (0171) [number removed]

The second of five programmes in which jazz guitarist and composer
Pat Metheny talks to Ian Carr about his career. While he was still with the Gary Burton Quartet, Metheny recorded two ECM albums under his own name, one of which was
Watercolors with keyboard player
Lyle Mays. Metheny recalls how he came to leave the Gary Burton
Quartet in 1977 and how he formed his own group with Mays.
Repeated Friday 11.30pm. See also 11.45pm
INVENTING AMERICA

Of Thee I Sing
A treat to mark American
Independence Day: Opera North's new staging of the Gershwin show 01 Thee I Sing. In this engaging political satire, John P Wintergreen is standing for American president with just one policy - love.
Opera North Chorus,
English Northern Philharmonia, conductor Wyn Davies
* See Brian Kay : page 42

(pianos)
Britten Introduction and Rondo alia
Burlesca, Op 23 No 1
Hindemith Sonata for Piano Duet
Stravinsky Concerto for Two Pianos Grainger A Lincolnshire Posy Repeat

Conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti
Castiglioni Inverno Inver (first UK performance)
Gelmetti Algos
Rendine Passacaglia Olivero Tenuot

Joan Bakewell is joined by Ben Okri , the Rev Angela Tilby , mathematician Ian Stewart and professor of visual arts Ludmilla Jordanova.
* See Roland White : page 123

Tonight, a concert from Pat Metheny. The jazz guitarist plays music from his new release Imaginary Day, with Lyle Mays (acoustic piano/keyboards), Steve Rodby (acoustic/electric bass), Paul Wertico (drums), Mark Ledford
(vocals) and Jeff Haynes (percussion). Producers Lyn Champion and Steve Shepherd

With Donald Macleod.
1.15 Schubert Songs Performed by Christoph Pregardien (tenor) and Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
2.35 Franck Eleven Miniatures
Robert Silverman (piano)
2.50 Saint-Saens Havanaise Rita Cepurcenko
(violin), Prague SO/Elli Jaffe
3.05 Mozart Piano Concerto No 17 in G, K453 Ronald Brautigam , Netherlands Radio Chamber
Orchestra, conductor Ernest Bour
3.45 Mozart String Quartet in D minor, K421 Orford Quartet
4.15 Bach Concerto in D minor,
BWV1052 Angela Hewitt (piano),
CBC Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mario Bernardi
4.40 Bizet L 'Arlesienne: Suite No
Slovenian RSO/Marko Munih
5.15 Rosenmüller De Profundis
Cantus Koln/Konrad Junghanel
5.35 Haydn Sonata in E minor,
H XVI 34 Andreas Staier (fortepiano)