Fiona Talkington presents Radio 3's breakfast show. Including an aria from Verdi's Rigoletto, two songs by Schubert, and excerpts from Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks. Show more
CD Review
Building a Library - Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale.
3 hours, 15 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
With Andrew McGregor. Includes Building a Library: Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale of 1641; Recent Britten releases including Billy Budd; Disc of the Week: Britten: Phaedra.
Tom Service travels to Moscow and St Petersburg to report on the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition, one of the most important events in the Russian musical calendar.
Catherine Bott talks with co-founder of Lonely Planet Tony Wheeler about the 17th-century traveller Thomas Coryate, who among other things wrote about of the music of Venice. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall, London, Sean Rafferty presents a piano recital by Elisabeth Leonskaja. Schubert: Allegretto in C minor, D915; Sonata in A, D664; Fantasy in C (Wanderer). Show more
Lucy Duran introduces a performance by Sephardic singer Mor Karbasi, and David Hutcheon and Jane Cornwell review the latest world music releases. Show more
American pianist Cedar Walton joins Alyn Shipton to discuss records made under his own name as well as work with Art Blakey, the Jazztet, Ron Carter and Lee Morgan. Show more
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
In a recital given at the 2011 Cheltenham Festival, Steven Isserlis and friends perform Schumann's quirky and neglected Andante and Variations as well as the Fantasiestucke, Op 88. Show more
From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Suzy Klein presents a performance of Puccini's Madama Butterfly, conducted by Andris Nelsons, and starring soprano Kristine Opolais. Show more
A dark and funny radio poem in which writer Kate Clanchy listens to women across the country talking about the other mothers around them. With Adjoa Andoh and Zita Sattar. Show more
Ed McKeon introduces more recent music from Ireland, featuring works by Ian Wilson performed at the 2011 Sligo New Music Festival. Plus electronic improvisations by Oren Ambarchi. Show more
Lucie Skeaping presents music by members of the Ferrabosco family - Alfonso I and his son - Italian musicians who worked at the English Court during the 16th century. Show more
John Shea introduces a recital from the 2009 BBC Proms, in which Llyr Williams (piano) plays Mendelssohn, Bach/Busoni and Brahms. Show more
