Sara Mohr-Pietsch shares her personal choice of music, including Mouton's Nesciens Mater, Muhly's Music Under Pressure, Haydn's overture to La Fedelta Premiata and songs by Hahn. Show more
With James Jolly. Sullivan, arr Mackerras: Pineapple Poll (excerpt). Verdi/Liszt: Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (original jazz band version). Show more
Donald Macleod considers why Wagner shared the revolutionary spirit of 1830s Germany with its political, social, artistic and moral changes. Plus the revolutionary Tristan chord. Show more
Pianist Noriko Ogawa performs at the 2010 Gregynog Festival in mid Wales. Debussy: Estampes (excerpt). Yoshihiro Kanno: A particle of water. Chopin: Sonata No 2. Show more
Penny Gore presents Mahler's Third Symphony, performed by the Vienna Philharmonic with Bernard Haitink and contralto Jard van Nes at the Concertgebouw in 1995. Show more
Presented by Sean Rafferty. Laurence Cummings, soprano Christine Rice and Lawrence Zazzo preview a new production of Radamisto at ENO. Plus live music from violinist Ruth Palmer. Show more
Mark Elder conducts the Halle Orchestra in Mahler's Totenfeier, songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (featuring mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager) and Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony. Show more
Night Waves
Peter Ackroyd, Norman Wisdom, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Jonathan Franzen
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Presented by Matthew Sweet. With Peter Ackroyd on his new book about ghosts; a celebration of Norman Wisdom; Oliver Stone's Wall Street sequel; Jonathan Franzen's new novel Freedom. Show more
Donald Macleod considers why Wagner shared the revolutionary spirit of 1830s Germany with its political, social, artistic and moral changes. Plus the revolutionary Tristan chord. Show more
Glasgow novelist and crime writer Louise Welsh gets to grips with the murders which marred the life and reign of James II King of Scots. Show more
Max Reinhardt introduces October from Tunng, No Moon at All from Slim Gaillard and his Boogiereeners, Descriptive Jottings of London from Exaudi plus Afghan artist Mahwash. Show more
Rarities, archive and classic recordings from Europe. Tonight, John Shea's selection includes a concert by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Show more
