Martin Handley presents music to discover, rediscover and lift the spirits. Show more
CD Review
Building a Library: Bach: Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen
3 hours, 15 minutes on BBC Radio 3
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Bach: Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen; Song recital discs; Disc of the Week: Beethoven: Egmont incidental music, Op 84.
Tom Service marks the centenary of the birth of American composer Samuel Barber and visits the Emerson Quartet in rehearsal, talking to them about their passion for Czech music. Show more
Catherine Bott explores interpretations of Bach's St Mark Passion, a work presumed lost but for references and a text by Bach's librettist 'Picander'. Show more
In a concert from the Wigmore Hall, London, the Zehetmair Quartet perform Bruckner's rarely heard String Quartet in C minor and Schumann's Quartet in A minor, Op 41 No 1. Show more
Lucy Duran travels to Poland to explore the folk music of Chopin's homeland, meeting suka player Maria Pomianowska, the folk group Kapela Brodow and the Warsaw Village Band. Show more
Alyn Shipton is joined by Paul Towndrow to select the key recordings of influential saxophonist Ornette Coleman, who celebrates his 80th birthday in March 2010. Show more
From the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts a performance of Janacek's final opera, based on Dostoyevsky's novel. Starring Willard White and Kurt Streit. Show more
Adam Fischer conducts baritone Gabor Bretz and soprano Elena Zhidkova in a performance of Bartok's only opera, a one-act work with a libretto by Bela Balazs. Show more
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
Writers Janice Galloway and Iwo Zaluski follow in the footsteps of Frederic Chopin who, in 1848, visited Scotland on what was to be his final tour.
Music by British composers. Harvey: Marahi. Les Jeunes Solistes/Richard Safir. Holt: Feet of Clay. Ulrich Heinen (cello). Anderson: Stations of the Sun. BBC SO/Oliver Knussen. Show more
Tom Service continues a series dedicated to the music of German composer Wolfgang Rihm. With Rihm's String Quartet No 5 and the UK premiere of Das Gehege. Show more
On the 500th anniversary in 2009 of Henry VII's death, Catherine Bott explores the chance meeting of the King with Philip the Handsome and his musical entourage. Show more
John Shea presents music by Beethoven, Mozart, Bernstein, Vaughan Williams, Sibelius, Magi, Papandopulo, Bach, Chopin, Lanier, Telemann, Giustini, Elsner, Strauss and Franck. Show more