The AdS 3 /CFT 2 correspondence is checked beyond the supergravity approximation by comparing correlation functions. To this end we calculate 2-and 3-point functions on the sphere of certain chiral primary operators for strings on AdS 3 × S 3 × T 4 . These results are then compared with the corresponding amplitudes in the dual 2-dimensional conformal field theory. In the limit of small string coupling, where the sphere diagrams dominate the string perturbation series, beautiful agreement is found.