Rob Cowan presents music to discover, rediscover and lift the spirits.
With Sarah Walker. Including Beethoven: Coriolan Overture. Telemann: Concerto in D. Tallis: Loquebantur variis linguis, Videte miraculum, If ye love me. Dvorak: Serenade in D minor. Show more
Donald Macleod introduces extended excerpts from Borodin's great national opera Prince Igor. Including a performance of the Polovtsian Dances. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
New Generation Artists at Birmingham Town Hall
Episode 3: Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
1 hour on BBC Radio 3
A performance by Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord). Bach: Prelude, Fugue and Allegro, BWV998; Concerto in the Italian Style; Partita No 6 in E minor. Plus music by Froberger. Show more
Katie Derham presents Sibelius' Symphony No 7, Berlioz's Beatrice et Benedicte, Op 27, Britten's Cello Symphony, Op 68 and Elgar's Alassio (In the South), Op 50. Show more
Presented by Sean Rafferty. With Christian Curnyn, conductor and director of the Early Opera Company, and musicians featured in the Oxford Lieder Festival's Spring Series. Show more
Austrian pianist Till Fellner continues his survey of the complete sonatas of Beethoven, including two of his best-loved works, the Moonlight and Waldstein. Show more
Matthew Sweet brings together a round table of guests to explore one of the best selling novels of the 19th century - Wilkie Collins's influential The Woman in White. Show more
Donald Macleod introduces extended excerpts from Borodin's great national opera Prince Igor. Including a performance of the Polovtsian Dances. Show more
Novelist and short story writer Ruth Thomas tells the true tale of how a missing cat in a misty cherry orchard started a life long interest in the life and work of Chekhov. Show more
Max Reinhardt with music from Scriabin and Townes van Zandt, plus Morton Subotnik's Silver Apples of the Moon and a collaboration Christian Fennesz and Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous. Show more
Susan Sharpe with music including Bruckner's Symphony No 5, plus Sweelinck, Telemann, Melcer, Villa Lobos, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Bach, Vivaldi, Rachmaninov, Haydn, Jeune and Koehne. Show more