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Building a Library: Mozart's String Quartet in D minor, K421
3 hours, 15 minutes on BBC Radio 3
With Andrew McGregor. Building a Library: Mozart's String Quartet in D minor, K421; Recent recordings of music for Holy Week; Disc of the Week: Schubert's Die schone Mullerin.
Catherine Bott uncovers the story of Nicola Vicentino, the 16th-century composer who shocked and amazed people with his radical microtonal music. Show more
Catherine Bott presents a profile of 16th century composer Antonio de Cabezon. Blind from childhood, he spent his career serving the Spanish monarchy as organist and composer. Show more
From Wigmore Hall, London. Concert featuring Janine Jansen (violin) and Itamar Golan (piano). Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 5. Bartok: Violin Sonata No 2; Rhapsody No 1. Show more
Lucy Duran is joined in the studio by young oud player and Radio 3's World Routes Academy pupil Khyam Allami. Lucy talks to Khyam about his roots and the maqam tradition of music. Show more
Alyn Shipton introduces an archive interview in which the late John Dankworth selected some of his finest recordings. Includes work with the Johnny Dankworth Seven and his big band. Show more
Live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Louis Longree conducts a 19th-century Romantic version of Shakespeare's tragedy. With baritone Simon Keenlyside. Show more
Geoffrey Smith presents listeners' jazz requests, celebrating the life of Sir John Dankworth. Show more
Musician David Bramwell explores Victorian psychic phenomena, modern witchcraft and mind-altering states, in search of the story behind an inherited moustache. Show more
Tom Service concludes a series dedicated to the music of German composer Wolfgang Rihm. Rihm: Fetzen cycle. Plus new string quartets by international composers. Show more
Lucie Skeaping explores the art of the lullaby, from ancient melody to Elizabethan song, and discovers how the form offers inspiration to the world of early music. Show more
Susan Sharpe with music by Brahms, Bach, Vivaldi, Coulthard, Shostakovich, Rodrigo, Beethoven, Glazunov, Svendsen, Ockeghem, Satie, Horneman, Jongen, Mozart, Ravel and Schobert. Show more