Noon
BBC Young musician of the year Sheku-Kanneh Mason is topping the U.K. pop and classical music charts following his Royal Wedding performance. We hear some of his album Inspiration and we start our Classics 101 series with the William Tell Overture.
Cellist Sheku-Kanneh Mason Photo: Facebook - Sheku-Kanneh Mason
1pm Review: Alex Ross with Stroma
Alex Ross, author and music critic for the New Yorker, is touring New Zealand with the group Stroma and singer Bianca Andrew for Chamber Music New Zealand. Peter Hoar was at the first concert in Auckland.
2pm
We continue celebrating great violin concerto performances. Today it’s Vadim Repin playing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Kirov Orchestra, conducted by Valery Gergiev.
Tchaikovsky Photo: By Nikolai Dimitriyevich Kuznetsov [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
