Rob Cowan presents music including Faure, Mozart and Stravinsky. Plus the latest on the Specialist Classical Chart and more contenders for the title of the Nation's Favourite Aria. Show more
With Sarah Walker. Glinka: Overture: Russlan und Ludmilla. Granados: Danzas Espanolas (Nos 7, 2, 6). Stravinsky: The Firebird. Rameau: In convertendo. Mozart: Symphony No 28 in C. Show more
Donald Macleod reveals how, despite unsuccessful early attempts at opera, Dvorak couldn't shake the opera bug and determined to struggle on. Show more
Penny Gore presents Llyr Williams in a piano recital at BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff. Schubert: Piano Sonata in A minor, D784. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition. Show more
Penny Gore presents the cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic in Poulenc's Figure humaine. Plus Simon Rattle conducting Haydn's The Seasons, featuring soprano Christiane Oelze. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Including the A-Z of Opera, where E is for ensemble, plus listeners' suggestions for operatic Es. Show more
LSO conducted by Gergiev in Debussy: Prelude a l'apres midi d'un faune. Stravinsky: Symphony in C. MacMillan: Violin Concerto (soloist Vadim Repin). Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms. Show more
Night Waves
Why People Lie, Hal Prince, Elia Suleiman, Science and Literature
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Presented by Anne McElvoy. With psychologist Dorothy Rowe on our capacity for lying, Broadway director Hal Prince on his new musical and Palestinian film director Elia Suleiman. Show more
Donald Macleod reveals how, despite unsuccessful early attempts at opera, Dvorak couldn't shake the opera bug and determined to struggle on. Show more
Jonathan Sawday explores how in Restoration Britain Charles II's return brought a resurrection of the king's bodily powers like his 'healing touch'. Show more
Fiona Talkington introduces tracks from Jan Bang's new release ...And Poppies from Kandahar. Plus Gianluigi Trovesi's take on Verdi opera and music from Matthew Herbert. Show more
Susan Sharpe with music by Mendelssohn, Berg, Beethoven, Mozart, Muthel, Bizet, Balakirev, Parac, Muffat/Lully, Liszt, Wolf, Mokranjac, Schumann, Bach, Rodrigo, Roman and d'India. Show more
