Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents wide-ranging music to begin the day, from Elgar to Ellington and Mozart to Makeba.
With James Jolly. Including Walton: Orb and Sceptre (Coronation March). Wagner: Siegfried Idyll. Mozart: Violin Concerto No 3 in G, K216. Arnold: Homage to the Queen. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on how, as the 18th century progressed, the gradual insinuation of Italian styles into Spanish music became a tidal wave. Spain finally embraced opera. Show more
Louise Fryer with music from festivals around the world. Including Wagner: Prelude (Tristan und Isolde). Plus works by Chabrier, Vierne, Terry Riley, Honegger and Tchaikovsky. Show more
Presented by Sean Rafferty. The Borodin String Quartet perform in the studio and violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen combines contemporary music and Bach. Show more
Ian Skelly presents Zubin Mehta at the Proms 2009 conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in Webern's Passacaglia, Richard Strauss's Don Quixote and Brahms's Symphony No 4 in E minor. Show more
The Verb
Jonathan Lethem/Chekhov Short Story Competition/Elvis at 75/John Ashbery
45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Ian McMillan's cabaret of the word features novelist Jonathan Lethem and a rare interview with avant-garde American poet John Ashbery. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on how, as the 18th century progressed, the gradual insinuation of Italian styles into Spanish music became a tidal wave. Spain finally embraced opera. Show more
Poet and critic Andrew Motion explores the connection between walking and writing in a series about poems that follow paths. Show more
Charlie Gillett introduces music from around the world. Show more
John Shea with music beginning with Glinka's Ivan Susanin, followed by Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Doppler, Lustig, Salieri, Contant, Mozart, Turk, Bardos/Weores, Kadosa, Bartok and Byrd. Show more