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.
Cellist Martin Rummel. Photo: Nancy Horowitz
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.
American violinist Joshua Bell Photo: Bill Phelps
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.
Felix Mendelssohn Photo: Wilhelm Hensel 1847 Public Domain
