Rob Cowan presents music to discover, rediscover and lift the spirits. Show more
With Sarah Walker. Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia. Handel: Sweet bird, that shun'st. Bach: English Suite No 3. Mozart: Symphony No 40. Bartok: Duke Bluebeard's Castle. Show more
Donald Macleod explores the musical output of the teenage Schubert, who had developed a musical maturity well beyond his years. With Mass in F (1st mvt), Erlkonig, Symphony No 5. Show more
From the Wigmore Hall, London, Markus Werba (baritone) and Gary Matthewman (piano) perform music by Schubert and Brahms. Including Schubert: Fischerweise; Brahms: Ein Sonnett. Show more
Louise Fryer celebrates British and European composer-conductor-performers. Elgar: Froissart. Mahler: Kindertotenlieder. Plus Lambert, Watkins, Martinu and Walton. Show more
Petroc Trelawny presents the Smith Quartet playing in the studio. Plus director Daniel Kramer and choreographer Frauke Requardt on their project Pictures from An Exhibition. Show more
Presented by Ian Skelly. CBSC and Youth Chorus and BBC Philharmonic conducted by HK Gruber in Friedrich Cerha's Like a Tragicomedy; Vassily Sinaisky conducts Mahler's Symphony No 3. Show more
Night Waves
Mark Twain/Maps/Billy Bragg and Mick Gordon
45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Philip Dodd explores the life and legacy of Mark Twain, the creator of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and versatile grandfather of American letters, who died in 1910. Show more
Donald Macleod explores the musical output of the teenage Schubert, who had developed a musical maturity well beyond his years. With Mass in F (1st mvt), Erlkonig, Symphony No 5. Show more
Geographer and running obsessive Hayden Lorimer considers why we run and what it means. Show more
Jez Nelson presents a concert celebrating the life and music of the late trumpeter and composer Ian Carr. Featuring the London premiere of Carr's rarely heard Northumbrian Sketches. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents music by Bruckner, Mendelssohn, Haydn, Grieg, Marques y Garcia, CPE Bach, Sorkocevic, Ibert, Dvorak, Clara Schumann, JM Haydn, Enescu, Corelli and Vanhal. Show more