Fiona Talkington presents music including Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 19 in G minor, one of Grieg's Symphonic Dances and the Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No 1. Show more
CD Review
Building a Library - Liszt: Annees de Pelerinage: Book 1
3 hours, 15 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library - Liszt: Annees de Pelerinage: Book 1 (Switzerland); Disc of the Week: Schulhoff Violin Sonatas. Show more
Presented by Tom Service. With conductor and pianist Christoph Eschenbach, English Touring Opera's new production of Tobias Picker's The Fantastic Mr Fox, and a new book on Nielsen.
Lucie Skeaping explores the lives and work of Francesca and Settimia Caccini, the two musical daughters of renowned singer and composer Giulio Caccini. Show more
Presented by Katie Derham. From the Wigmore Hall in London, soprano Sandrine Piau, viola player Antoine Tamestit and pianist Markus Hadulla perform an all-Schubert programme. Show more
Andy Kershaw and Lucy Duran explore music of cities, visiting the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali and South Africa. Show more
Abram Wilson joins Alyn Shipton to select the key recordings by trumpeter Roy Eldridge, including partnerships with Gene Krupa, Chu Berry, Artie Shaw, Lester Young and Art Tatum. Show more
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
From the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Riccardo Frizza conducts a new production of Rossini's Armida, an epic tale of sorcery at the time of the First Crusade. Show more
By Natalie Mitchell. Play about a young unemployed man who wants to make his family proud of him, like his brother, who died in Afghanistan. Maybe politics holds the answer. Show more
Ivan Hewett presents a concert recorded in November 2010 in Kings Place, London, featuring premieres by Fujikura and David Toop, plus Berio, Helmut Lachenman and Georges Aperghis. Show more
Catherine Bott explores the life and music associated with Marie Salle, one of the most revolutionary and successful dancers of her age. She acted as a muse to Handel and Rameau. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents pianist Maria Joao Pires performing at the Sixth Chopin in Europe International Music Festival. Show more
