Martin Handley presents a refreshing choice of music. Show more
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Brahms: Die schone Magelone; New early vocal music releases; Disc of the Week: Prokofiev string quartets.
Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Chopin, Tom Service talks to pianists Maurizio Pollini and Krystian Zimerman about their relationship with the composer's music. Show more
Lucie Skeaping visits southwestern Germany to profile the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Founded in the mid 1980s, the ensemble is now one of the leading period ensembles in the world. Show more
From the Wigmore Hall, London, Suzy Klein presents mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and pianist Eugene Asti performing English songs, including Purcell, Warlock, Bridge and Britten. Show more
Lucy Duran is joined by Max Reinhardt and Sue Steward to discuss recent CDs by Bela Fleck and Mamadou Diabate, and other world music releases. Plus a performance by Sierra Maestra. Show more
In an interview recorded during one of his last visits to Britain, the late percussionist Ed Thigpen joins Alyn Shipton to select the recorded highlights of his career. Show more
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk. Show more
From the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Valery Gergiev conducts Shostakovich's powerful adaptation of Gogol's absurdist short story. Starring Andrei Popov and Gordon Gietz. Show more
Gianandrea Noseda conducts the BBC Philharmonic, Turin Regio Chorus and a Russian cast in Rachmaninov's one-act opera Aleko, based on Pushkin's dramatic poem The Gypsies. Show more
Nadine Marshall plays four characters in a family whose ordinary day is shattered by unforeseen disaster. With Petra Letang, Richie Campbell, Manjeet Mann, Jill Cardo, Inam Mirza. Show more
Tom Service presents a series dedicated to the music of German composer Wolfgang Rihm. Music includes Schwarzer und roter Tanz; Bild; Konzert in einem Satzl; Concerto (Seraphin). Show more
The Early Music Show
11th-Century Fraud: Ademar's Apostolic Mass
13 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Lucie Skeaping explores the extraordinary story of the earliest-known medieval composer for whom a compositional autograph survives: Ademar de Chabannes and his Mass for St Martial. Show more
John Shea presents music by Slavenski, Lukacic, Papandopulo, Brahms, Fitelberg, Verdi, Liszt, Frescobaldi, Bonnet, Berlioz, Rachmaninov, Madetoja, Infante, Handel, Palestrina. Show more