Maths: Eigenvalues and Eigenlines
with Andrew McGregor.
7.05 Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
7.25 Mendelssohn Motet:
Ehre sei Gott in der Hohe
7.32 Keyboard Compendium: Bach English Suite No 2 in A minor (BWV 807)
8.05 Thomas Ah! non credevi tu (Mignon, Act 3)
8.10 Milhaud Duo for two violins, Op 258
8.45 Lambert Rio Grande
Discs
Presented by Stephen Johnson. Including Glinka Ruslan and Ludmilla (excerpts) Soloists
Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre,
Moscow/Yuri Simonov
Brief Encounter from Cardiff with Nicola Heywood Thomas.
Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 2 BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Lionel Friend
10.10 Artist of the Week: Gerald Moore (piano) Schubert Des Tages Weihe (D763)
Elly Ameling (soprano) Janet Baker (mezzo) Peter Schreier (tenor)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bar)
10.30 Offenbach
Entr'acte and Infernal
Galop (Orpheus in the Underworld)
Toulouse Capitole
Orchestra and Chorus/ Michel Plasson
10.35 Monro. arr Wilson My Lovely Celia David Lloyd (tenor)
Gerald Moore (piano)
10.40 Mathias Arcadia
BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Tadaaki Otaka
10.55 Moss Cornish
Floral Dance
Peter Dawson (bass-bar) Gerald Moore (piano)
from the Pittville Pump Room.
Chinngirian Quartet
Beethoven String Quartet in E flat, Op 74 (Harp) Hugh Wood String Quartet No 1
11.50 Beethoven's Second
Thoughts
Barry Cooper and David Owen Norris explore some of Beethoven's little-known revisions, including the Piano Concertos No 2 and 4 and discuss how they may alter our views of the music.
12.10 Beethoven String Quartet in E flat, Op 127 (Concert sponsored by Lloyds Bank pic)
British Youth Opera Orchestra, conductor
Timothy Dean.
Presented by David Gallagher in conversation with members of the company. Britten Suite on English Folk Tunes: A Time
There Was
Berlioz Les Nuits d'été
Helen Lothian (mezzo)
Andrew Mackenzie Wicks
(tenor)
Nathan Berg (baritone) Barber Knoxville -
Summer of 1915 Catrin Wyn Davies (soprano) Copland.
Appalachian Spring (original version);
Old American Songs (Set I)
Nathan Berg (baritone)
Golub, Kaplan, Carr Trio Haydn Piano Trio in C (HXV27)
Shostakovich Piano Trio
No 2, Op 67
Brahms Piano Trio No 2 in C, Op 87
(Given earlier this year in the Royal Northern College of Music)
John Thornley presents traditional Latvian folk songs about love, marriage, spring and the pre-Christian customs of the summer solstice, with choral and instrumental groups such as llgi (which means "The Souls of the Dead"), the children's choir Mazie Suitini and the experimental folk group Rasa ("Dew"), who play with sawn-off ski-sticks, bottles, metal tumblers and wooden bugles.
The Bradford Festival
Concluding her look at some of the musical events at the festival, Jo Whiley goes behind the scenes with the Sellors Engineering Band to discover what makes brass bands so popular.
Edward Greenfield with arts news and music including
5.15 Sarasate
Zigeunerweisen
6.03 Chabrier Bourrée fantasque for piano
6.35 Krommer Partita for wind octet in F, Op 57
7.03 Nicholas Ludford
Domine Jesu Christie
Producer Ray Abbott
from the Royal
Albert Hall, London.
The 100th Prom season opens in spectacular fashion with one of the most opulent of late-
Romantic works, an epic tale of love and death based on the tale of King Waldemar of Denmark and his mistress Tove.
Schoenberg Gurrelieder
BBC Singers
Philharmonia Chorus
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
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In the last of the week's programmes, Antony Hopkins considers how acquiring bits of audio equipment has transformed his music listening at home.
Joubert
String Quartet No 3 Szymanowski String Quartet No 2
"It was just like being squeezed by an enormous hand." Survivors relive their experiences, rescuers and guides grapple with methods of survival, while
Swiss scientists approach the mystery of the root cause - the changing nature of snow itself.
Music by Javier Alvarez. An Arthur Johnson production
Sarah Walker introduces studio recordings of three works premiered by the Composers' Ensemble last month.
Vinko Globokar Letters
Simon Bainbridge For
Miles Keith Tippett Fragments of a Cameo
Producer Alan Hall
