Martin Handley presents music including songs by Arne and Korngold, organ works by Buxtehude and Shostakovich's Ballet Suite No 1. Show more
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30am Building a Library: Dvorak's Slavonic Dances, Op 46. 10.45am Cliff Eisen on Mozart's opera Idomeneo. 11.50am Disc of the Week: Bach Violin Concertos. Show more
Music Matters
Alexander Goehr, Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues, Leif Segerstam
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Tom Service talks to Alexander Goehr about his new opera Promised End and explores the latest score from composer/conductor Leif Segerstam, who has so far published 220 symphonies. Show more
Lucie Skeaping introduces highlights of a concert given as part of the 2010 Summer Festival of Early Music in Prague by the Austrian based ensemble Echo du Danube. Show more
Fiona Talkington presents Jonathan Biss in a live piano recital from Wigmore Hall. Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 10 No 1; 6 Bagatelles, Op 126; Piano Sonata in E, Op 109. Show more
Banning Eyre travels to Argentina to discover the rich musical cultures that span that vast nation. Banning learns about the history of the tango and talks to leading musicians. Show more
In an archive recording, Alyn Shipton talks to the late saxophonist Fred Anderson about his best CDs, including work with Joe Jarman, Muhal Richard Abrams and drummer Hamid Drake. Show more
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
Andrew McGregor introduces a performance given at the 2010 Bayreuth Festival of Wagner's controversial opera Lohengrin, starring Jonas Kaufmann and Annette Dasch as Elsa. Show more
A specially adapted version of Jonathan Cash's award-winning play about violence and prejudice, written in response to the bombing of the Admiral Duncan pub in 1999. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a portrait of Norwegian composer Arne Nordheim, who died in 2010. With contributions from those who knew and worked with him. Works include Epitaffio, Eco. Show more
Brian Priestley joins Alyn Shipton to look over Billy Strayhorn's small catalogue of records under his own name as well as his collaborations with Duke Ellington. Show more
John Shea presents a concert from the 2009 Utrecht Early Music Festival - the second programme focusing on Mendelssohn. Show more
