Midday
Martin Rummel, head of the School of Music at the University of Auckland fronts up to discuss the new music course being offered in 2019 and to answer his critics; and we celebrate Bruckner’s birthday.
1pm BBC Proms: Joshua Bell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Beethoven’s fourth symphony complement violinist Joshua Bell’s performance Saint-Saëns’s Third Violin Concerto in this edition of the BBC Proms.
2pm
We continue listening to violinist Joshua Bell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields as part of the BBC Proms series and we play a few more Gramophone best recording of 2018 winners.