Martin Handley's seletion includes Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake, Rossini's Tancredi Overture and Janacek's Glagolitic Mass. Show more
CD Review Andrew McGregor with all that's new in the world of classical music recordings 9.30 Tomas Luis de Victoria on disc 10.30 Chris de Souza looks at new Liszt recordings.
Music Matters
Terry Gilliam, Shostakovich Quartets, 60 Years of British Folk, Music and Technology
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Terry Gilliam on his production of Faust, Shostakovich's string quartets, how British folk music has changed since the Festival of Britain in 1951.
Lucie Skeaping explores Purcell's semi-opera, The Fairy Queen, based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. With excerpts from each of the masques from various recordings. Show more
From Wigmore Hall, London, Katie Derham presents pianist Ashley Wass in a recital of a work by Liszt: Annees de pelerinage (Premiere annee - Suisse). Show more
Rita Ray introduces a concert from Edinburgh, given as part of the 2011 Africa Soul Rebels tour and featuring Seun Kuti and Egypt 80. Show more
Pianist, composer and bandleader Django Bates joins Alyn Shipton at the 2011 Cheltenham Jazz Festival to discuss his best recordings. Show more
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
From New York's Metropolitan Opera, a performance of Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, with Violeta Urmana as Ariadne. Presented by Margaret Juntwait and Ira Siff. Show more
A feature composed from the testimony of children through Northern Ireland's three decades and more of conflict. Show more
Recital given at The Sage Gateshead. Strauss: Sonata in E flat, Op 18. Vilde Frang (violin), Milana Chernyavska (piano). Bartok: Sonata for solo violin. Vilde Frang (violin). Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a concert of contemporary music by Luciano Berio, Per Norgard, Thomas Adès and Gerald Barry, played by the London Sinfonietta under Thomas Ades. Show more
Alyn Shipton surveys Australian jazz, presenting tracks from saxophonist Charlie Munro's '60s quartet, the Mike Nock Trio and pianist Paul Grabowsky. Show more
John Shea presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra playing Bruckner at the 2010 BBC Proms. Show more
