Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Including Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Walton's Crown Imperial, and Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 2. Show more
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique; Recent releases of choral music; Disc of the Week: Berlioz: Grande Messe des morts.
Tom Service talks to the American composer Gunther Schuller about his musical life.
The Early Music Show
Isabella d'Este - The First Lady of the World
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Lucie Skeaping explores the life and musical passions of one of the most important and influential women of the Italian Renaissance, Isabella d'Este. With Ockeghem, Josquin, Cara. Show more
From Wigmore Hall, London, Nicola Benedetti (violin) and Alexei Grynyuk (piano). Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 7 in C minor, Op 30 No 2. Brahms: Violin Sonata No 1 in G, Op 78. Show more
Trumpeter Alison Balsom shares some of her favourite pieces and the musicians that continue to inspire her. Including pieces by Bach, Shostakovich and Strauss. Show more
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
Weinberg's The Passenger from the Bregenz Festival, with Elena Kelessidi (The Passenger) and Michelle Breedt (Lisa). Teodor Currentzis conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Show more
Peter-Jakob Kelting's play imagining five of the applicants to be the executioner of a triple murderer in Switzerland in 1938. With Paul Copley and Ralph Ineson. Show more
Richard Causton's 2009 Chamber Symphony, performed at a 'Music of Today' concert by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth. Show more
Tom Service presents music from the Southbank Centre's celebration of Pierre Boulez. Plus the Hear and Now Fifty, featuring Louis Andriessen's De Staat. Show more
In an archive interview recorded during one of his last visits to the UK before his death in 2005, Ellington bassist Jimmy Woode talks to Alyn Shipton about his recorded catalogue. Show more
John Shea presents archive recordings from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra including Mahler's First Symphony conducted by Leonard Bernstein. Show more
