Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Including one of Schubert's Impromptus for piano, and Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for Strings. Show more
With Andrew McGregor. Includes Building a Library: Bizet: L'Arlesienne; Baroque opera: Pergolesi's L'Olimpiade and Cavalli's Artemisia; Disc of the Week: Schubert: Symphony No 9.
Using Proms founder Henry Wood's collection of concert programmes in the British Library, Stephen Johnson builds a picture of concert-going life around 1900. Show more
Catherine Bott talks to Julian Rushton, chairman of Musica Britannica, a collection important in Britain's modern early music revival. With works by Tallis, Byrd, Blow and Lawes. Show more
Imogen Cooper in a piano recital from the Wigmore Hall, London. Debussy: Preludes, Book 2 (excerpts). Beethoven: Sonata, Op 31 No 2. Chopin: Nocturne, Op 27 No 2; Ballade, Op 52. Show more
Andy Kershaw visits the Sayan Ring Festival in Shushenskoe in deepest Siberia, meeting some of the headline acts and getting a personal lesson in throat singing. Show more
Alyn Shipton is joined by cornettist Digby Fairweather to select the best recordings of trumpeter Alex Welsh, who led one of Britain's best jazz groups from the 1950s to the 1980s. Show more
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
Piano recital given by Francesco Piemontesi. Brahms: 25 Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op 24. Liszt: Vallee d'Obermann (Annees de Pelerinage, Premiere Annee: Suisse). Show more
Live from Covent Garden, Donald Macleod presents the first Royal Opera House production of Massenet's opera Cendrillon, based on the tale of Cinderella. Show more
Deborah Levy considers the true story of Princess Alexandra Amelie of Bavaria, who was seen walking sideways through her family's palace believing she had swallowed a glass piano. Show more
Hear and Now
London Sinfonietta - Marco Stroppa, Peter Eotvos, Boulez, Stockhausen
1 hour, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Tom Service presents a London Sinfonietta concert given at the 2011 Aldeburgh Festival, including the UK premieres of works by Marco Stroppa and Peter Eotvos. Show more
Lucie Skeaping discusses the musicians in the thriving musical court of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, including Isaac, Senfl and Hofhaimer. Show more
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
