Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Including Offenbach's overture to Orpheus in the Underworld, Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, and a Piano Trio by Faure. Show more
With Andrew McGregor. Includes Britten's Symphonic Suite from Gloriana and an excerpt from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. Plus new Czech recordings and Martinu's Symphony No 5.
Tristram Hunt explores the outpouring of music and cultural responses to the death in 1612 of Henry Stuart, Prince of Wales, eldest son of King James I. Show more
Catherine Bott presents the City Musick and tenor Jason Darnell performing works by Morley, Dowland and Guillaume Tessier at the 2011 York Early Music Festival. Show more
Khatia Buniatishvili in a piano recital from Cadogan Hall, London. Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor; Liebestraume No 3. Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No 7. Show more
Christopher Cook presents a concert paying tribute to Richard Rodney Bennett, who celebrates his 75th birthday in 2011. With Music by Dutilleux, Machonchy and Bennett himself. Show more
In an archive interview, Alyn Shipton talks to bass virtuoso Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen about his finest recordings. Show more
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests including performances by Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Coleman Hawkins. Show more
Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi performs Schumann's Toccata in C, Op7, and the Escher Quartet from the USA play Beethoven's Quartet in F, Op 59 No 1.
From the Royal Albert Hall, Louise Fryer presents Part 1 of the first-ever comedy Prom, with Tim Minchin, Danny Driver, Kit and the Widow, and the BBC Concert Orchestra. Show more
Matthew Sweet talks to comedians Natalie Haynes and Steve Punt about their favourite humorous writing, from Aristophanes and Chaucer to Dorothy Parker and PG Wodehouse. Show more
Louise Fryer presents the conclusion of the first-ever comedy Prom. With Tim Minchin, Sue Perkins, Kit and the Widow, Susan Bullock (soprano), Danny Driver (piano) and the BBC CO. Show more
A specially adapted version of Jonathan Cash's award-winning play about violence and prejudice, written in response to the bombing of the Admiral Duncan pub in 1999. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music inspired by Buddhism and Eastern philosophy by Rolf Hind, Param Vir and Jonathan Harvey played by Chroma at 2011's Spitalfields Festival in London. Show more
Lucie Skeaping explores the lives and work of Francesca and Settimia Caccini, the two musical daughters of renowned singer and composer Giulio Caccini. Show more
Jonathan Swain introduces a concert in which the KBS Symphony Orchestra perform a programme including Mozart Solemn Vespers and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Show more
