Maths: Countdown to Logs

Paul Guinery presents a sequence alternating
English choral classics sung by the BBC Singers, conductor Simon Joly , and baroque instrumental music performed by the Ecole d'Orphee, director John Holloway - plus Thomas Beecham conducting the Liverpool Philharmonic in Sibelius.
7.02 E W Naylor Voxdicentis
7.10 Telemann
Paris Quartet No 2 in A minor
7.30 Howells One thing have I desired of the Lord
7.35 Rameau Third
Concert (Pieces de clavecin en concerts)
7.45 Vaughan Williams Valiant for Truth
7.50
Sibelius Lemminkainen 's Return
8.00 Hoist The Evening Watch
8.05 Couperln
L 'Espagnole (Les Nations)
8.25 Bairstow Let all mortal flesh keep silence
8.30 Telemann Paris
Quartet No 1 in G
8.40 Bax This worlde'sjoie Producer Piers Burton-Page

For National Music Day, today's programme includes pieces from the four corners of the British Isles.
Mackenzie Britannia: A Nautical Overture
English Northern Philharmonia, conductor David Lloyd-Jones
9.14 Vivaldi Guitar Concerto in D (RV93)
Christopher Parkening (guitar) Academy of St Martin , director Ion Brown
9.25 Kodaly Dances of Marosszek
St Paul Chamber Orchestra/Hugh Wolff
9.38 Composer of the Week: Schumann Marche des Davidsbundler (Carnaval) Daniel Barenboim (piano)
9.57 Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks
King's Consort/Robert King
10.18 Artist of the Week: Erich Kleiber (conductor) Strauss Presentation of the Rose (Der Rosenkavalier)
Sena Jurinac and Hilda Gueden (sopranos) Vienna PO
10.25 Howard Ferguson Piano Concerto
Howard Shelley (piano) City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
10.52 Mozart Die Zauberflote (excerpts) Soloists
Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Otto Klemperer
11.06 Anon Child Grove; Easter Thursday; The Beggar Boy; Mr Isaac 's 's Maggot; The Little Barley-Corne Ellen Hargis (soprano) The King's Noyse
11.23 Arwel Hughes
Praise the Lord (Saint David)
BBC Welsh SO, conducted by The Composer
11.29 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F (BWV 1047)
ECO/Raymond Leppard
11.42 Bliss Suite: Miracle in the Gorbals
Bournemouth SO, conductor Paavo Berglund
Producer Edward Blakeman
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BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor Andrew Davis
Tasmin Little (violin) Elgar Introduction and Allegro Sibelius Violin Concerto
Vaughan Williams Symphony No 5

London Winds
Pascal Roge (piano) lbert Trois pièces brèves d'lndy Chanson et danses Saint-Saens Caprice sur des airs danois et russes
Damase Variations for wind quintet
Poulenc Sextet
Francaix L'Heuredu berger

BBC National Orchestra of Wales conductor Barry Wordsworth Jose Feghali (piano) Sibelius Karelia Suite
Tchaikovsky Piano
Concerto No 1 in B flat minor
Musorgsky, orch Ravel Pictures from an Exhibition

Harriet Gilbert presents an edition devoted to
Japanese writing to mark the tercentenary of Matsuo Basho , regarded as Japan's greatest poet.
Producer Clare McGinn

Simon Bainbridge Music for Mel and Nora
Niccolo Castiglioni Gruezi: Romanzetta for oboe
Melinda Maxwell New piece for oboe and piano (first performance) Berio Sequenza VH Lutoslawski Epitaph
Simon Holt Banshee in the House (first performance) Melinda Maxwell (oboe) John Lenehan (piano) Richard Benjafield (percussion)

Alwynne Pritchard introduces Explorations 94, showcasing four young composers from around the world.
London Sinfonietta, conductor Oliver Knussen
Soloists Julian Anderson Tiramisu ;
Sea Drift
Rob Zuidam Octet
Osvaldo Golijov Yiddish Ruakh
Rob Zuidam Calligramme(il pleut)
Osvaldo Golljov
Balada de
Ahogados Solitarios Thomas Ades Living Toys
Producer Philip Tagney

Cesar Franck Les Beatitudes
Louise Lebrun (soprano) Jane Berbie (mezzo) Nathalie Stutzman (contralto) David Rendall and Peter Jeffes (tenors) Marcel Vanaud (baritone) Francois Loup and Daniel Ottevaere (basses)
Choirs of Radio France New Philharmonic Orchestra/Armin Jordan

Brian Wright introduces Franck's most ambitious oratorio in conversation with musicologist Richard Langham Smith.

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