Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, including music from Sibelius's Suite for violin and orchestra and Edward German's Romance for clarinet and piano. Show more

With Andrew McGregor. Including Strauss: Burleske. Debussy orch Matthews: Preludes. Conductor Gianandrea Noseda discusses recent recordings. Walton: Belshazzar's Feast.

Katie Derham considers the relationship between the great writer Leo Tolstoy and the Russian composers of his day and how Tolstoy found music a source of recreation and delight. Show more

Lucie Skeaping explores the extraordinary story of the earliest-known medieval composer for whom a compositional autograph survives: Ademar de Chabannes and his Mass for St Martial. Show more

Oboist Nicholas Daniel, pianist Tom Poster and the Aronowitz Ensemble perform music by pupil and teacher Benjamin Britten and Frank Bridge. From the Cadogan Hall. Show more

David Atherton conducts the London Sinfonietta, BBC Singers and soloists. Maxwell Davies: Il rozzo martello. Georges Aperghis: Champ-Contrechamp. Birtwistle: Angel Fighter. Show more

Guy Barker joins Alyn Shipton to explore the wealth of material that Oliver Nelson created as both arranger and saxophonist in a prolific career cut short by chronic overwork. Show more

Geoffrey Smith presents listeners' jazz requests, including Joe Venuti's A Mug of Ale, Dave Brubeck's I'm in a Dancing Mood, and Bud Powell's Un Poco Loco. Show more

Performances by BBC New Generation Artists. Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death. Henk Neven (baritone), Hans Eijsackers (piano). Britten: String Quartet No 3. Elias Quartet. Show more

From the Royal Albert Hall, London, Louise Fryer presents soloist Emanuel Ax in Brahms's Piano Concerto No 2, with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under Bernard Haitink. Show more

As part of a series of events in which performers at 2011's Proms introduce their favourite fiction and poetry, Anne McElvoy talks to conductor Andrew Litton. Show more

An all-Brahms Prom concludes with Bernard Haitink conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in the composer's fourth and final symphony. Brahms: Symphony No 4 in E minor. Show more

National Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner explores five years of federal arts funding in Roosevelt's New Deal America - and the music it produced. Show more

Ivan Hewett presents a concert from the 2011 City of London Festival, in which the Goldner String Quartet plays music by Australian composers, including Sculthorpe and Westlake. Show more

Lucie Skeaping presents music from the 18th century Russian imperial court, including chamber music and choruses by the so-called Golden Three - Berezovsky, Bortniansky and Vedel. Show more

Susan Sharpe presents baritone Florian Boesch's Canadian recital debut, featuring music by Schumann and Schubert. Show more