Rob Cowan presents music to celebrate the birthdays of the Queen and composer John McCabe, as well as 18th-century music from Mexico. Show more
With Sarah Walker. Tchaikovsky: Serenade melancolique. Mozart: Serenade in E flat, K375. Liszt: Consolation No 3 in D flat. Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No 1. Brahms: Nanie. Show more
Donald Macleod introduces two works which reflect the polar extremes of Schubert's temperament, written at a time when his mental health began to deteriorate. Show more
Henk Neven (baritone) in Liszt: Im Rhein im Schone Strome; Ein Fichtenbau; Es muss ein wunderbares; Freudvoll und Leidvoll. Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord) in Bach: Partita No 4. Show more
Elin Manahan Thomas introduces the BBC NOW at BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff. Mendelssohn: Overture: Calm sea and a prosperous voyage. Plus Schubert, Ravel, Takemitsu and Chabrier. Show more
Choral Vespers for the Feast of St Anselm, from the Church of the London Oratory. Show more
Petroc Trelawny introduces The King's Singers and Charivari Agreable performing. Plus conductor Nicola Luisotti, Micaela Carosi and Marianne Cornetti on a new production of Aida. Show more
Marin Alsop conducts the London Philharmonic in the UK premiere of Mark Anthony Turnage's Texan Tenebrae, plus a new violin concerto by Philip Glass and Gorecki's Third Symphony. Show more
Night Waves
The Real Thing/Pascal Bruckner/Antony Griffiths/
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Presented by Matthew Sweet. With Tom Stoppard's play The Real Thing, French writer Pascal Bruckner on the power of Western guilt and Antony Griffiths of the British Museum. Show more
Donald Macleod introduces two works which reflect the polar extremes of Schubert's temperament, written at a time when his mental health began to deteriorate. Show more
Geographer and running obsessive Hayden Lorimer considers whether knowing the sorts of rocks you are running over makes it harder or easier to run. Show more
Max Reinhardt presents music from Ethiopia's Mulatu Astatke, Chinese sound artist Yan Jun, the Georgian Anchiskhati Choir and Hannah Peel's rendition of Tainted Love for music box. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents music by Schubert, Korngold, Weill, Bernstein, Prokofiev, Haydn, Telemann, Mendelssohn, Widor, Mozart, Schoeck, Bach, Suppe, Lipinski, Hellendaal and Enna. Show more
