Maths: Complex Numbers and Cayley Tables
With Penny Gore. Including a chance to win tickets for a Mahler Prom, and at approximately
7.05 Charpentier Musique de theatre pour Andromede
7.20 Dargomizhsky Baba-Yaga
7.32 Elgar Three part-songs, Op 18
7.49 Schubert Polonaise in B flat (D580)
8.15 Bach Sonata No 3 in F (Wq 7013)
8.45 Chopin Concert rondo: Krakowiak
Discs
Presented by William Mival. Symphonic poem: October, Op 131
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Neeme Jarvi
Four Verses by Captain
Lebyadkin Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(baritone)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Ballet Suite No 5
Royal National Scottish Orchestra/Neeme Jarvi
From Glasgow with Mary Miller , including
J C Bach Grand Overture in B flat (Lucio Filla) Scottish Chamber
Orchestra, conductor
Nicholas McGegan
10.10 Wagner Mignonne Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
10.25 Artist of the Week:
Richard Stoltzman (clarinet) Beethoven Quintet in E flat for piano and wind, Op 16 Rudolph Vrbsky (oboe)
Alexander Heller (bassoon) Robert Routch (horn) Rudolf Serkin (piano)
11.00 Mozart Sonata in A minor (K310)
Maria-Joao Pires (piano)
11.37 Dvorak Czech Suite,
Op 39
Czech PO/Libor Pesek
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Repeated from yesterday
11.30pm
with Susan Sharpe.
The Lyric Quartet
Berg String Quartet, Op 3
Schumann String Quartet in A minor, Op 41 No 1 Rpt
From St Katherine Cree in Leadenhall Street, introduced by Penny Gore . Malcolm Arnold Three Sea
Shanties
Diana Burrell Wind Quintet Robin Holloway Serenade in E flat
A Classic Arts production
This week, Susan Sharpe 's selection features two leading lights of British music this century. In 1967 Benjamin Britten conducted the English Chamber
Orchestra in a performance of Bach's St John Passion, with Peter Pears as the Evangelist. And in 1980 Michael Tippett 's Triple
Concerto received its world premiere, with Gyorgy Pauk (violin), Nobuko Imai (viola), Ralph Kirshbaum (cello), and the London Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Colin Davis.
Producer Susan Kenyon
FAIREST ISLE
An audio lexicon of the great English comedy performers. Russell Davies celebrates Frankie Howerd.
Orkester Shqlponja de Tirana
Jo Shinner presents the first London recording by the group who name themselves after the national emblem of their native Albania: a doubleheaded eagle. They are led by the capital's accordion hero, Vladi Hasimi , and other members come from the State Opera House, the Radio/Television State Orchestra and the State
Folk Ensemble.
An Angell Sound production
Life as a member of the London Gabrieli Brass
Ensemble
A Partners in Sound production Rpt
With Richard Baker , including
Enescu Romanian
Rhapsody No 1
6.03 Beethoven The
Creatures of Prometheus
(Finale)
6.30 Dvorak Waltzes Op 54 Producer Ray Abbott
ftfn From the Royal llJM Albert Hall London. ,
Thomas Zehetmair (violin) BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Mark Wigglesworth Berg Violin Concerto
8.00 Buried Alive
Stephen Johnson explores the mystery surrounding Mahler's unfinished tenth symphony and the controversy surrounding its reconstruction. With contributions from Riccardo
Chailly, Mark Wigglesworth, Paul Banks, Colin Matthews and Berthold Goldschmidt.
Rpt
8.20 Mahler Symphony No 10 (performing version by Deryck Cooke)
FAIREST ISLE
In the last of five programmes, Wagner takes up his appointment as conductor of the Philharmonic and has a word to say about London orchestras. Read by Stephen Moore.
Sarah Walker introduces a complete recording of Ian Gardiner 's British Museum, a set of variations on a theme found on a discarded piece of manuscript paper and presented in the manner of museum exhibits.
Performed by George W Welch under the direction of the composer. Plus works by Glaclnto Scelsi , James Dillon , Simon Umbrick and others, performed by the Roger
Heaton Group in a recent London apppearance. Producer Alan Hall
FAIREST ISLE
Roderic Dunnett rediscovers another opera from the age of the empire. Julius Benedict The Lily of Killarney
Although he was German-born, Benedict's tale of true love conquering all, with its folk tunes and colourful Gaelic melodies is considered more Irish than those of home-grown composers.
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth Rpt
