Maths: Maxima and Minima

Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.00 Handel
Concerto Grosso in G, Op 6 No 1
English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
7.45 Mozart
Oboe Quartet in F (K370) Nash Ensemble
8.00 Sor
Theme and Variations,
Op9
Narciso Yepes (guitar)
8.45 Stravinsky Scherzo fantastique, Op 3
Philharmonia, conductor Eliahu Inbal
Discs

Presented by Alain Frogley, with Timothy West as Vaughan Williams and Edward Petherbridge as Holst.
4: Merciless Beauty Vaughan Williams Merciless Beauty Ian Partridge (tenor)
Members of the Endellion Quartet Hoist
Choral Symphony (3rd mvt)
Felicity Palmer (soprano)
London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conductor Adrian Boult
Terzetto
Richard Adeney (flute) Peter Graeme (oboe) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Vaughan Williams Flos Campi
Christopher Balmer (viola) Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley
(Discs)

Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Isabelle van Keulen (violin)

Beethoven Overture: Egmont
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 in E minor

(Given last October in the Town Hall, Huddersfield)

The last of this week's programmes, featuring the soprano Karita Mattila. Aulls Salllnen
Four Dream Songs
Lahti Symphony Orchestra conductor Ulf Soderblom
Discs

The ensemble plays the fifth of six programmes of chamber music drawn mainly from the Biedermeier period and performed on period instruments. Presented by Antony Pay .
Schubert Octet in F (D803)

L'Isola Disabitata
(The Deserted Island) Haydn's only opera to a text by the 18th century's most celebrated librettist, Metastasio, is the story of an abandoned wife who pines for her husband, lost 13 years earlier. The couple are reunited after a few tragic and happy twists of the plot. Sung in Italian. (tenor)(sop)(mezzo) with the Lausanne Chamber
Orchestra conducted by Antal Dorati. Discs

Paul Silverthorne (viola) (piano) John Constable , Bartok arr Silverthorne Rhapsody No 1 Dellus, arr Tertis Sonata No 3
Stravinsky, arr Silverthorne Suite italienne

Graham Scott (piano)
The exciting young British pianist makes his Radio 3 debut.

Berg Piano Sonata, Op 1

Rachmaninov Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op 42

conductor Grant Llewellyn Ernst Kovacic (violin) William Mathias Helios, Op 76
Mozart Violin Concerto No 3 in G (K216)

Music, news and arts news with Natalie Wheen.
Producer Edward Blakeman

from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley with Alexander Baillie (cello) and Robert Tear (tenor)

Elgar The Wand of Youth: Suite No 1
Delius Cello Concerto
8.20 Wenlock Edge
A geologist, a writer and a musician reflect on Wenlock Edge and what it meant to Housman and to Vaughan Williams. With Peter Toghill, Richard Graves and Michael Berkeley.
8.40 Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge (orchestral version)
Bliss A Colour Symphony

Still the West. Timothy
O'Grady ends his literary journey across the USA by meeting young novelist Walter Kirn in Montana, wilderness and last refuge of environmentalists, pioneers, Hollywood stars and literary cowboys. Is this still the frontier?
Series producer Noah Richler

The Jamaican-born poet and novelist Claude McKay was one of the pioneers of black literature. His best-selling novel Home to
Harlem was set in the clubs and bars and won him few friends among the integrationist black leaders of the Harlem Renaissance.
In a decade of travels through Europe, he became a celebrity at the Fourth Congress in Leningrad in 1922 and worked with Sylvia Parkhurst in London. Ferdinand Dennis chronicles the odyssey of Claude McKay. Reader Hugh Quarshie.
Producer Fiona McLean

C W Orr, born 100 years ago this week, was a countryman composer who spent his whole life outside the musical mainstream, wrote a handful of art songs and little else, yet won accolades from Delius, Bax and Warlock. The turbulent inner depths of Orr's tranquil
Gloucestershire waters found their outlet in settings of his favourite poet, A E Housman. Orr's friend Christopher Palmer presents this centenary portrait, in conversation with Graham Johnson and Eric Sams , two of those who rate Orr's Housman settings among the truest ever made.
Producer David Gallagher