Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Including a Fantasy for flute on Verdi's La Traviata, Vaughan Williams's overture to The Wasps and Strauss's Morgen! Show more
Rob Cowan shares great music, with the Essential CD of the Week, Artist of the Week and guest Martin Rees, astronomer royal, introducing his essential pieces of classical music. Show more
Apart from music, Schuman had one other love in life: the all-American ball game. Donald Macleod explores the composition of his unique one-act 'baseball opera' The Mighty Casey. Show more
Beethoven: Trio in B flat, Op 11. David Shifrin (clarinet), David Finckel (cello), André-Michel Schub (piano). Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No 2 in F. Borodin Quartet. Show more
Performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Mozart: Symphony No 31. Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden gesellen. Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 1. Stanford: Songs of the Sea. Show more
From Exeter Cathedral. Show more
Presented by Sean Rafferty, with live performances and interviews in the studio from Tony Award winning Broadway stars Idina Menzel and Marvin Hamlisch, and English Touring Opera. Show more
Apart from music, Schuman had one other love in life: the all-American ball game. Donald Macleod explores the composition of his unique one-act 'baseball opera' The Mighty Casey. Show more
A concert in which Kirill Karabits conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Berlioz: Overture (Benvenuto Cellini). Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (soloist - Renaud Capucon). Show more
Izrael Metter's short story in which a man confronts the former policeman who had a hand in his own father's fate many years back. Show more
From the Lighthouse, Poole, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's concert under Kirill Karabits concludes with a performance of Prokofiev's powerful Fifth Symphony. Show more
Night Waves
Claire Tomalin, Forward Poetry Prize, Gerhard Richter, The Iliad
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Presented by Philip Dodd. With Claire Tomalin on her biography of Charles Dickens, the winner of the 2011 Forward Poetry Prize, Gerhard Richter at Tate Modern, and Homer's Iliad. Show more
The Darkest Hour: Series on sleeplessness. Author AL Kennedy explores why, ever since childhood, she has always found the nights too thrilling and full of possibility for sleep. Show more
Fiona Talkington with Uzbek singer Sevara Nazarkhan, Oskar Schonning and French group Bratsch. Show more
Jonathan Swain's selection includes Brahms's Symphony No 4 performed by the Royal Concertgebouw orchestra and Dvorak's Piano Trio, Op 21. Show more
