Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Including music from Schubert's Trout Quintet, the In paradisum from Faure's Requiem, and Bruckner's Ave Maria. Show more
With James Jolly. Smetana: Overture (The Bartered Bride). Mahler: Blumine. Mozart: Horn Quintet in E flat, K407. Beethoven: Appassionata Sonata. Dvorak: Symphony No 6. Show more
Composer of the Week
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Episode 4: We'll Try a Thousand Charming Ways to Win Ye
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod on Purcell's music for a 1692 adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream - The Fairy Queen. Show more
Katie Derham with a recital by Jack Liebeck (violin) and Katya Apekisheva (piano). Schumann: Sonata No 1, Op 105. Prokofiev: Sonata No 1, Op 80. Tchaikovsky: Valse Scherzo. Show more
A performance of Puccini's opera La boheme, with Stephen Costello and Krassimira Stoyanova. Plus the BBC NOW, Jack Liebeck (violin) in music by Chausson and Saint Saens. Show more
In Tune
12/05/2011 Michael Nyman, Cambridge Union Debate, St Pancras Parish Church Choir
2 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Presented by Sean Rafferty. With an interview with composer Michael Nyman, a celebration of Cecilia McDowall, and a Cambridge University classical music debate. Show more
Composer of the Week
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Episode 4: We'll Try a Thousand Charming Ways to Win Ye
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3Donald Macleod on Purcell's music for a 1692 adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream - The Fairy Queen. Show more
Radio 3 Live in Concert
BBC SSO - Martin Suckling, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky
2 hours, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Ilan Volkov leads the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Martin Suckling: The Moon, The Moon. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4 (soloist - Nelson Freire). Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5. Show more
Night Waves
Ai Weiwei, A Delicate Balance, 1911 Festival of Empire, Iphigenia in Forest Hills
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Anne McElvoy discusses the case of the artist Ai Weiwei, currently in prison in China. And it is one hundred years to the day since the 1911 Festival of Empire. What was it like? Show more
Thomas Lynch, a Michigan-based undertaker and poet, remembers time spent with fellow Irish writer Michael Donaghy. Show more
Verity Sharp's choices include music from Seamie O'Dowd, Mairtin O'Connor and Cathal Hayden, the benju zither of Balochistan and guitar music from Madagascar. Show more
John Shea introduces the second of two concerts celebrating the music of J S Bach given by the English Baroque Soloists at the 2010 BBC Proms. Show more
