Maths: Matrices and Transformations

with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Keyboard Compendium: Bach English Suite No 1 in A (B WV 806)
Gustav Leonhardt (h'chord)
7.32
Verdi Solenne in qest'ora (La Forza del Destino)
Giacomo Lauri-Volpi (tenor) Gino Bechi (baritone)
Orchestra de Teatro Reale dell' Opera/Renato Arduini
7.46 Tippett Fantasia on a theme of Handel
Howard Shelley (piano)
Bournemouth SO/Hickox
8.05 Gautier de Coincy Cantarai d'aqueszt trobadors
Camerata Mediterranea
8.08
Chopin Grande valse brillante in A minor, Op 34 No 2 Evgeny Kissin (piano)
8.29
Schoenberg Verkldrte Nacht , Op Raphael Ensemble. Discs

5: Customs and Dress.
Martin Jarvis reads from the journal of Edward Wright 's visit to Venice in the 1720s.
Concertos, Op 4 (La
Stravaganza): No 1 in B flat; No 8 in D minor; No 2 in E minor; No 4 in A minor; No 9 in F; No 11 in D
Monica Huggett (violin)
Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood Producer Graham Dixon. Discs

with Edward Blakeman.
Artist of the Week: Frederick Fennell (conductor)
Fred Jewell The Screamer
Eastman Wind Ensemble
10.30 Rossini, arr
Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Largo al factotum
(II Barbiere di Siviglia) Janos Starker (cello) Alain Planes (piano)
11.00 Saint-Saens
Symphony No 3 in C minor (Organ) Jane Watts (organ)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor John Mauceri
11.55 John C Heed
In Storm and Sunshine
Eastman Wind Ensemble, conductor Frederick Fennell

from the Concert
Hall of New
Broadcasting House. John Lill (piano)
Haydn Sonata in Eflat (HXVI52)
Beethoven Sonata in C minor, Op 111

Gregory Rose presents and conducts a programme of rare Russian choral music performed by the BBC Singers.

Glinka Lullaby
Rimsky-Korsakov The Tartar Captivity; The Moon Sails
Taneyev Sunrise; Two Choruses
Tchaikovsky To approaching sleep
Glazunov Love
Cul Six Choruses

Sibelius Academy
Symphony Orchestra, conductor Atso Almila
Mika Rannali (piano)
In the second of the series,
David Gallagher talks to players from the orchestra of Finland's leading music school. It is the first of two concerts in the series built around music by their spiritual patron, Sibelius. Sibelius En Saga Aarre Merikanto
Piano Concerto No 3
Sibelius Symphony No 5

In the 30s, arrangements of folk music performed by artists such as Tefta
Tashko Koco reached an audience beyond the country's borders.
Eno Koco presents examples of his mother's recordings alongside authentic folk performances from both north and south Albania. Producer Alan Hall

Tommy Pearson sets out to uncover the mysteries of "global" music - what it is, where it comes from. He talks to Katherine Canoville of Nation Records and musicians from Loop Guru.

Edward Greenfield with music including:
5.15 Weber Overture:
Oberon
6.03 Beethoven Cello
Sonata in F, Op 5 No 1
7.03 Walton Overture:
Scapino
Producer Ray Abbott

BBC Symphony Chorus (women's voices)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
Beethoven Overture:
Leonora No 3
Berlioz La Mort d'Ophelie (Tristia)
Judith Weir Heroic
Strokes of the Bow
(first UK performance) Hoist Suite: The Planets (Given last Sunday in Cheltenham
Town Hall and sponsored by Nuclear Electric pic)

Derek Alsop discusses the concept of the picturesque.

Melanie Armitstead (sop) Scott Mitchell (piano)
Purcell Sweeter than roses; When I have often heard
Britten Let the florid music praise; Seascape (On This Island)
Angel; Epigram; Lines written during a sleepless night (The Poet's Echo)
Rachmaninov Siren; In the Silence of the Night; Spring Waters Faure Les Roses d'Ispahan
Debussy Green
Poulenc Toréador; Les Chemins de I'amour; Fêtes galantes
Producer Adam Gatehouse

d'oiseaux
L'Alouette-lulu
Yvonne Loriod (piano) plays Messiaen's evocation of the wood lark. Discs

As a curtain-raiser to the 100th season of the Proms, a portrait in words and music of Sir Henry J. Wood. The programme includes the voices of Wood's daughters Tania Cardew and the late Avril Wood, Eileen Calthrop, Lord Menuhin, Sidonie Goosens, Felix Aprahamian and Sir Henry himself. Presented by Arthur Jacobs.

(First night of the Proms next Friday at 8.00pm)

Music for one or two players recorded by the Ixion
Ensemble, including Your Mouth for viola and percussion by Andrew Toovey and Hyxos for alto flute and percussion by Giacinto Scelsi. Plus music for harpsichordist Elisabeth Chojnacka 's ten fingers by lannls Xenakls. Producer Alan Hall