Sara Mohr-Pietsch shares her personal choice of music.
With Sarah Walker. Mozart: Horn Concerto in No 3 in E flat. Schumann: Overture (Genoveva). Busoni: Elegien. Haydn: String Quartet in F, Op 50 No 5. Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony. Show more
Donald Macleod explores the colourful world of the Parisian Opera-Comique, beginning with an attempt to define some of the characteristics of the genre. Show more
From Cadogan Hall, London. Vocal ensemble Stile Antico perform Renaissance polyphony setting texts from the Song of Songs, from Ceballos, Clemens non Papa, Gombert and Guerrero. Show more
Valery Gergiev conducts the LSO in the scintillating ballet score The Firebird that Stravinsky wrote 100 years ago for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Plus Scriabin: Symphony No 1 in E. Show more
In Tune
23/08/2010 Tippett Quartet, Mitzi Meyerson, Vladimir Ashkenazy
2 hours, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
With Petroc Trelawny. With the Tippett Quartet playing Beethoven, Stravinsky and Schubert, plus conversation with harpsichordist Mitzi Meyerson and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy. Show more
From the Royal Albert Hall. Thomas Dausgaard conducts the Swedish Chamber orchestra in Schumann: Symphony in G minor - incomplete. Berlioz: Les nuits d'ete (Nina Stemme - soprano). Show more
Nathan Osgood reads John Cheever's classic short story about a young woman whose moment of scandal in suburban America causes her to flee to Europe. Show more
From the Royal Albert Hall. Swedish Chamber Orchestra under Thomas Dausgaard in Albert Schnelzer's Tim Burton tribute A Freak in Burbank (UK premiere). Plus Schumann: Symphony No 2. Show more
American pianist Stephen Kovacevich talks to Norman Lebrecht about his career, his move to England, his studies with Myra Hess and the musicians and composers he admires. Show more
The Elias Quartet perform Mendelssohn's String Quartet No 1 in E flat, Op 12. Show more
David Crystal, a celebrated writer on the English language, ponders what Samuel Johnson's reaction would be to the internet and contemporary word-gathering machinery. Show more
Jez Nelson presents Django Bates's Beloved Bird performing re-arranged Charlie Parker classics, and Polar Bear's genre bending style in a gig played at the Garage, Islington. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents music by Potter, MacKenzie, Stanford, Schumann, Huber, Grieg, Rodrigo, Rachmaninov, Debussy, Buxtehude, Francaix, Schubert, Martinu, Haydn, Handel and Suk. Show more
