Rob Cowan with music including a Schumann, Beethoven, Chopin and Rossini. Please listen carefully when interacting as our text lines may have closed and you may still be charged. Show more
With James Jolly. Bach: Cantata, BWV 72. Holst: Japanese Suite. Bax: The Princess' Rose Garden. Keiko Abe: Dream of the Cherry Blossoms. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel, Op 28. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Alessandro Scarlatti's first period in Naples, where he influenced the course of the city's opera, writing around 70 works for the stage. Show more
Jean-Philippe Collard gives a piano recital at the Ulster Hall. Schumann: Papillons. Chopin: Nocturne, Op 27 No 2. Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte. Schumann: Waldscenen. Show more
With Louise Fryer. BBC SO/Jiri Belohlavek in Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, K622 (soloist Sabine Meyer). Martinu: Symphony No 2. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3 (soloist - Paul Lewis). Show more
Presented by Sean Rafferty. With Emma Kirkby, London Baroque and Andrea Marcovici, plus the A-Z of Opera, where J is for jealousy, and listeners' suggestions for operatic Js. Show more
In a performance given at St John's, Smith Square in London as part of the 2010 Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, Claudio Cavina directs La Venexiana in Monteverdi's Vespers. Show more
Night Waves
Louise Bourgeois, Christopher Hitchens, Cultural Attitudes to Skin, The Late Middle Classes
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Anne McElvoy looks back on the work of the late sculptor Louise Bourgeois. Plus Christopher Hitchens on his new memoir, cultural attitudes to skin and The Late Middle Classes. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Alessandro Scarlatti's first period in Naples, where he influenced the course of the city's opera, writing around 70 works for the stage. Show more
Charity worker Matt Peacock, who runs a community opera project for the homeless, considers the positive connections between these two worlds. Show more
Fiona Talkington presents tracks from the Punch Brothers' new album, musical prayers from Aruna Sairam, Ryuichi Sakomoto and Gavin Bryars, plus part of John Adams' A Flowering Tree. Show more
Susan Sharpe presents music by Handel, Purcell, Schumann, Moszkowski, Haydn, Parry, CPE Bach, Granados, Bacewicz, Faure, Auric, Grandjany, Brahms, Durante, Milhaud, Mozart. Show more
