Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Including at 7.50am a specially recorded Christmas carol from the BBC Singers under Bob Chilcott. Show more
With James Jolly. Faure: Pie Jesu (Requiem). Gershwin: I Got Rhythm Variations. Ruckert Lieder (excerpts). Haydn: Piano Trio in E flat, H XV 30. Handel: Julius Caesar (Act 3, Sc 3). Show more
Donald Macleod explores how Bach's family life reached a new peak with his second marriage, to a fellow musician who proved indispensable both personally and professionally. Show more
Piano recital by Alexander Madzar, as part of a celebration of Chopin. Chopin: Four Impromptus, Op 29, 36, 51 and, 66 Op posth; 24 Preludes Op 28. Show more
Katie Derham presents a performance of Bizet's opera Carmen, a tragic tale of gypsies, cigarettes, jealousy and murder. Starring mezzo Nadia Krasteva and tenor Massimo Giordano. Show more
John Paul Connolly and Rebecca Hall read texts about hearing and listening from Shakespeare, Wodehouse, Austen, TS Eliot, alongside music by Beethoven, Bach and Ligeti. Show more
New Generation Artists
Daniela Lehner, Escher String Quartet, Shabaka Hutchings
1 hour, 15 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Mezzo-soprano Daniela Lehner in songs by Wilhelm Kienzl, plus jazz from British clarinettist Shabaka Hutchings and Haydn's Joke Quartet from the Escher String Quartet. Show more
Presented by Martin Handley. For the Christmas Festival at St John's Smith Square, the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge and the OAE perform Christmas music by Bach and Corelli. Show more
Presented by Rana Mitter. As part of Radio 3's 2010 Free Thinking festival, jazz saxophonist Soweto Kinch delivers a lecture entitled Emancipation: A Listener's Guide. Show more
Donald Macleod explores how Bach's family life reached a new peak with his second marriage, to a fellow musician who proved indispensable both personally and professionally. Show more
Professor Miri Rubin explores the Jewish response to the Christian cult of the Virgin Mary, asking how this devotion was used for propaganda against medieval Jews. Show more
Max Reinhardt presents music boxes, song and improvisation, featuring Ty, Hannah Peel and Jason Yarde. Plus Buxtehude, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Dohnanyi, Willie Nelson and The Walkmen. Show more
Presented by Jonathan Swain. Valery Gergiev conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty in a performance given at the 2008 BBC Proms. Show more
