Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music, news and the occasional surprise.
With Sarah Walker. Including Fanny Mendelssohn, ed. Falletta: Overture. Lampe, ed/compl Holman: Pyramus and Thisbe (excerpt). Mendelssohn, compl Bufalini: Piano Concerto No 3. Show more
Donald Macleod and Russian music expert Alexander Ivashkin explore Schnittke's battles with ill-health. Featuring the terrifying Faust Cantata. Show more
Alexandra Soumm (violin), Julien Quentin (piano) and the Brodsky Quartet in music by Ravel, plus Mexican composers Javier Alvarez and Mario Lavista. Show more
Penny Gore presents the BBC SSO in Brahms: Symphony No 3; Dvorak: Serenade in E; Stravinsky: Concerto for piano/winds; Ravel: Alborada del gracioso; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6. Show more
Presented by Sean Rafferty. Including performances from cellist Jamie Walton with pianist Daniel Grimwood, and the Stockholm-based Arctia Piano Trio. Show more
The Leopold String Trio perform Beethoven's Trio, Op 3 and Trio, Op 9 No 1 as part of their all-Beethoven series at the Wigmore Hall in London. Plus the BBC CO in Vaughan Williams. Show more
In a talk from 2009's Free Thinking festival, scientist Tom Shakespeare asks how art can help solve complex moral issues like the right to die and ante-natal disability screeening. Show more
Donald Macleod and Russian music expert Alexander Ivashkin explore Schnittke's battles with ill-health. Featuring the terrifying Faust Cantata. Show more
Prof Susan James of Birkbeck College sheds light on Spinoza's Theological Political Treatise, a defence of religious pluralism in the 17th-century Dutch Republic. Show more
Fiona Talkington with music inspired by the Udmurtia traditions and bass playing by Eberhard Weber. Plus Hardanger fiddler Nils Okland and pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole in session. Show more
John Shea presents music by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Nielsen, Chausson, Handel, Schubert, Mozart, Telemann, Liszt, JE Bach, Dvorak, JM Haydn, Haydn, Schubert, Diepenbrock and Dvorak. Show more
