Rob Cowan presents music by some well-known and some less well-known English composers to celebrate St George's Day, as well as music from Vivaldi, Faure and Bach. Show more
With Sarah Walker. Napravnik: Melancholy. Lyadov: Musical Snuff-Box. Beethoven: String Quartet in B flat, Op 18 No 6. Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85. Brumel: Lamentations. Show more
Donald Macleod explores introduces music from Schubert's final years, including part of the intensely felt song cycle Die Winterreise and the finale of his last symphony. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Radio 3 New Generation Artists
Episode 4: Performances by Francesco Piemontesi, Tai Murray and Mahan Esfahani, Pavel Haas Quartet
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3
Francesco Piemontesi (piano) in Haydn: Variations in F minor, H XVII 6. Tai Murray (violin) and Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord) in Corelli: Violin Sonata in B flat, Op 5 No 2. Show more
Louise Fryer celebrates composer-conductor-performers. Coates: Suite (The Jester at the Wedding). Strauss: Don Juan. MacMillan: Magnificat. Plus Beethoven, Bridge and Britten. Show more
Irish actress/director Fiona Shaw talks about Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers, an English National Opera production opening soon. Richard Egarr plays harpsichord. Show more
The BBC Symphony Orchestra under Lawrence Renes perform a revised version of Jorg Widmann's Lied, as well as Rachaminov's Rhapsody for piano and orchestra, featuring Stephen Hough. Show more
Linguist Eva Ogiermann of Portsmouth University considers how different cultures apologise, and what the variations say about underlying cultural differences. Show more
Presented by Ian Skelly. The BBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor Lawrence Renes concludes its concert with Shostakovich's monumental and hard-hitting Symphony No 8 in C minor. Show more
Presented by Ian McMillan. With Alex Horne on words for the TV remote control, poetic responses to the Portuguese fado song form and novelist Lionel Shriver on her latest work. Show more
Donald Macleod explores introduces music from Schubert's final years, including part of the intensely felt song cycle Die Winterreise and the finale of his last symphony. Show more
Geographer and running obsessive Hayden Lorimer discusses American cardiologist Dr George Sheehan's philosophy of running, which has found many followers including Bill Clinton. Show more
Mary Ann Kennedy presents a mix of sounds from across the globe, plus a session with Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara, the guitar and ritti duo whose latest album is Trance Sessions. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents music, including Donizetti's opera L'elisir d'amore, plus Brahms, Schubert, Telemann, Kalliwoda, Papandopulo, Bruckner, Andriessen, Rossini and Beethoven. Show more
