Martin Handley presents Radio 3's breakfast programme. Show more
With Andrew McGregor. Including new Mendelssohn discs; Brahms symphonies; Chopin piano music; new recordings of Renaissance polyphony; Bartok: Duke Bluebeard's Castle.
Sarah Walker retraces the journey Satie made each day across Paris in order to earn a living playing cabaret music. She learns how it influenced his music. Show more
The Early Music Show
The Story of the Collegium Musicum
58 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Catherine Bott explores the history of the Collegium Musicum, the amateur music ensembles whose performances in Germany paved the way for public concert series. Show more
Catherine Bott presents Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Eric Le Sage (piano) in a recital from Cadogan Hall, London. Martinu: Flute Sonata. Dutilleux: Sonatine. Prokofiev: Flute Sonata. Show more
BBC Singers and Sinfonye. Hildegard of Bingen: Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum (selection). Britten: Sacred and Profane. Birtwistle: Narration. Wishart: Out of This World. Show more
Alyn Shipton is joined by Alan Barnes to explore the diverse key recordings of clarinettist Artie Shaw, including tracks by his big bands, and by Billie Holiday and Hot Lips Page. Show more
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
Alexandra Soumm (violin) and Adam Laloum (piano) perform Beethoven's Violin Sonata in D, Op 12 No 1. The ATOS Trio play Ravel's Piano Trio. Show more
David Zinman conducts the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. Anders Hillborg: Cold Heat (UK premiere). Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat, K595 (soloist - Maria Joao Pires). Show more
For a series of events in which musicians from the 2011 Proms introduce their favourite works of fiction, Susan Hitch is joined by cellist Matthew Barley. Show more
From the Royal Albert Hall, London. David Zinman conducts the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich in Beethoven's Symphony No 3 in E Flat (Eroica). Show more
Kerry Shale reads the Wallace Stevens poem The Man with the Blue Guitar, inspired by Pablo Picasso's painting The Old Guitarist. With new blues guitar music by Martin Simpson. Show more
Ivan Hewett presents the Elision Ensemble in concert at the 2011 City of London Festival. With new music by Australian composers, including David Lumsdaine and John Rodgers. Show more
Lucie Skeaping explores Purcell's semi-opera, The Fairy Queen, based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. With excerpts from each of the masques from various recordings. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents a concert featuring Chopin's Piano Concerto No 1, with soloist Sergio Tiempo and the Radio France Philharmonic conducted by Myung-Whun Chung. Show more
