Maths: Countdown to Logs
Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.00 Boyce Symphony in B flat
English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
7.50 Butterworth Two
English Idylls Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Grant Llewellyn
8.00 Purcell Rejoice in the Lord Always (Bell Anthem)
King's Consort, Choir and Orchestra, director Robert King
8.40 Elgar Overture: In the South (Alassio)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Andrew Litton. Discs
Presented by Alain Frogley, with Timothy West as Vaughan Williams and Edward Petherbridge as Gustav Holst.
5: Cold Regions
Holst Egdon Heath London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Adrian Boult
Field of Sorrow; Lovely Venus; Lament for Jonathan
Purcell Singers, conductor Imogen
Holst Scherzo London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Adrian Boult
Vaughan Williams Symphony No 4 in F minor BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by The Composer Discs
conductor Matthias Bamert
Mozart Symphony No 31 in D (K297) (Paris) Ives Three Places in New
England
Gershwin An American in Paris
(In association with Provincial Insurance)
(harpsichord)
Bach Partita No 5 in G
(BWV829)
French Suite No 1 in D minor (BWV 812)
Trio in F minor (1914) Violin Sonata No 2
Cello Sonata
Duo for violin and cello
Pavane
Dong Suk Kang (violin)
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
Pascal Devoyon (piano)
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Grieg's birth, Stephen Johnson introduces a selection from a 1957 Prom with the great Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent.
Grieg Overture: In Autumn Spring; The Youth;
Return to Rundarne; The Goal
Homage March (Sigurd Jorsalfar)
From Monte Pincio ; First Meeting; A Hope; A Swan; Eros
Lyric Suite, Op 54
conductor Tony Swainson Buxton Orr Tournament
Caledonian Suite
John Maxwell Geddes
Wolf of Badenoch
Cresswell Sextet for brass
Graham Wiggins visits
Elcho Island, off the north-eastern corner of Arnhem
Land, to learn the trade secrets of making and playing the didgeridoo, known locally as the yeraki. His teachers are the songmen of the clan into which, like most of the island's few white residents, he was adopted. During his stay, he recorded the funeral ceremony of a young girl who drowned - including the smoking-out of her house and the burning of her toys.
Music, news, arts news and a look forward to the weekend, with Richard Baker. Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mark Wigglesworth, with Gwyneth Jones (soprano),
Joanna MacGregor, (piano), Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot), live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan and Isolde)
7.50 Messiaen's Turangalila-Symphonie has a virtuoso part for piano, but its sound-world is also dominated by the sweet, unearthly tones of an electronic keyboard - the ondes martenot. Andrew Green talks to tonight's soloists Joanna MacGregor and Cynthia Millar at their keyboards about their contrasting roles in the symphony.
8.10 Messiaen: Turangalila-Symphonie
(Reluctant Maestro: See Feature page 28)
6: Gods that alums fail.
In his last lecture, Edward Said , Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, examines the nature of belief and the problems of those who recant, and portrays the secular intellectual.
Violin Sonata in E flat, Op 12 No
Violin Sonata in A minor, Op 23
Ruth Waterman (violin) Peter Pettinger (piano)
The Nobel Laureate Sinclair
Lewis was the most renowned American novelist of the 1920s. The author of Main Street, Babbitt and It
Can't Happen Here, his titles are mainstays in the American language, and yet his work is little known today. Russell Davies travels to Minnesota and New York to assess the reputation and legacy of this forgotten literary figure. Producer Noah Richler
The Electro-Acoustic
Piano
Sarah Walker unlocks the door leading to a programme of new music for piano and electronics. Pianist Philip Mead is caught in the glow between the speakers.
Philip Blackford
Interiors ... inward turns the Ivory Key, for electronic tape
Denis Smalley Piano Nets, for tape and piano
Christopher Fox More Light Producer Tim Thome
