Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Including Berlioz's overture to The Roman Carnival, Joplin's The Entertainer and harpsichord music by Balbastre. Show more
Suzy Klein presents music by Beethoven, Liszt and Offenbach, and Mark Swartzentruber brings in a vintage recording of Alfred Cortot playing Weber's Sonata in A flat, Op 39. Show more
Michael Berkeley talks to historian Amanda Foreman. Her musical choices include Tallis, John Bull, Purcell, Henry Bishop, Handel, Vivaldi, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and John Field. Show more
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and music of 18th century French composer and keyboard virtuoso Claude Balbastre with harpsichord player Sophie Yates. Show more
Simon Rattle conducts the CBSO at the 2011 Aldeburgh Festival in Messiaen's Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum and Mahler's song cycle Das Lied von der Erde. Show more
From Wells Cathedral during the New Music Wells Festival. Show more
Stephen Johnson explores Brahms's Fourth Symphony, with excerpts and a complete performance given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Jiri Belohlavek. Show more
Aled Jones presents coverage of the King James Bible Composer Awards - a competition for new choral music to mark the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. Show more
Caryl Churchill's dramatic satire of the financial excesses and corporate venality that followed the 1986 Big Bang. Adapted by Emma Harding. Show more
Michael Goldfarb talks to Anne Enright and Justin Cartwright about how 1930s artists, writers and film-makers responded to the Great Depression. Show more
Sequence of texts and music exploring the idea of infinity, with readings by Saskia Reeves and David Annen. Includes Herrick and Browning, plus Beethoven and Dutilleux. Show more
Julian Joseph presents a concert set featuring Japanese pianist Makoto Kuriya and Peter Sarik from Hungary, recorded as part of the Steinway Two Piano Festival in London. Show more
John Shea presents recordings of pianist Lyuba Encheva from the archives of Bulgarian Radio. Show more
