Martin Handley presents music, news and the occasional surprise, including music by Verdi, Gounod,, Mackenzie, Martinu and Anderson. Show more
Suzy Klein explores musical welcomes, introducing a fanfare by Janacek, overtures by Mendelssohn and Beethoven, a welcome song by Purcell, as well as a work by Bach. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is children's author Michael Morpurgo, whose musical choices include works by Tallis, Purcell, Bach, Handel and Vivaldi, and Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. Show more
The Early Music Show
Scarlatti and Corelli: Music for a Bourbon
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Catherine Bott explores the stories surrounding the music and entertainments put on for the occasion of Philip V of Spain's visit to Naples in 1702. Show more
Fiona Talkington presents listeners' requests, including arrangements of Buxtehude and Oasis, as well as Tippett, Beethoven, Coleridge-Taylor, Tavener, Wolf and Joseph Marx. Show more
Recorded in April 2010 at the the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge. Show more
Stephen Johnson explores Mahler's frequent incorporation of singers and elements from his own songs into his symphonies. Show more
Aled Jones presents choral music featuring nonsense words or no words at all. He also talks to Roxanna Panufnik about her new mass for the London Oratory School Schola. Show more
Dan Rebellato's play about modern life's complexity. A couple start dismantling their house; a pregnant woman refuses to give birth; an election grinds to a halt when no one votes. Show more
Zeinab Badawi visits the Albuga Festival in Khartoum to meet actors and directors who are at theatre's front line and use their skills to help communities recover from war. Show more
Poetry, prose and music on the theme of May Day, with readings by Sarah Alexander and Julian Rhind-Tutt. Including Milton, Chaucer and Herrick, plus Britten, M Berkeley and Debussy. Show more
Claire Martin presents a special piano edition, including Neil Cowley talking about his new CD, plus the second part of a concert featuring the Martin Zenker Group. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents music by Beethoven, Gesualdo, Hummel, Szymanowski, Bach, Weber, Prokofiev, Mendelssohn, Elgar, Bacewicz, Fasch, Poulenc, Faure, Cabezon, Haydn and Schubert. Show more
