Sara Mohr-Pietsch's selection includes includes Mendelssohn's Ruy Blas, Handel's Organ Concerto in F, Bernstein's Candide Overture and a song by Robert Jones. Show more
With James Jolly. Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri Overture. Liszt: Sonetta 123 del Petrarca. Haydn: Symphony No 95. Bach: Concerto for 2 violins, BWV1043. Rozsa: Danza, Op 14. Show more
Composer of the Week
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): Young Dmitri...and Friends
Episode 4: Alexei Zhivotov
1 hour on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod presents Shostakovich's Third Symphony, plus a miniature masterpiece by the little-known Alexei Zhivotov. Show more
The Badke String Quartet performs in the Great Hall of Queen's University for 2010's Belfast Festival. Bartok: String Quartet No 2, Op 17. Dvorak: Quartet No 12 in F (American). Show more
Presented by Louise Fryer. Simon Rattle conducts Debussy's shadowy, menacing and mysterious opera Pelleas et Melisande at New York's Metropolitan Opera. Show more
Presented by Sean Rafferty. With music from cellist Daniel Muller-Schott, ahead of a concert with the London Philharmonic, and the Danish String Quartet, touring the UK and Ireland. Show more
Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the Philharmonia in the first part of a Bartok celebration. Bartok: Kossuth; Piano Concerto No 1 (solo - Yefim Bronfman); The Miraculous Mandarin (complete). Show more
Andy Kershaw and Lucy Duran explore the music of remote jungle communities aroung the world, visiting the Solomon Islands, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burma. Show more
Composer of the Week
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): Young Dmitri...and Friends
Episode 4: Alexei Zhivotov
1 hour on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod presents Shostakovich's Third Symphony, plus a miniature masterpiece by the little-known Alexei Zhivotov. Show more
Poet and writer Ruth Padel considers our attitudes to butterflies in the British landscape and asks how literature, biology and history have shaped our responses to them. Show more
Max Reinhardt presents Allen Ginsberg singing with Don Was, Led Bib, a Bach gigue, Charley Patton, the Gloria from La messe de Tournai, plus Bailey Cooke and Julian Moore. Show more
Jonathan Swain's selection includes highlights from the 2009 Beethoven Festival in Bonn. Show more