Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Including John Gardner's First Symphony, Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No 6, and Rutter's The Very Best Time of Year. Show more
CD Review
Building a Library: Schumann: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor
3 hours, 15 minutes on BBC Radio 3
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Schumann: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 63; Rob Cowan, Simon Heighes and Harriet Smith on the best new recordings of 2011.
Music Matters
Andreas Staier, The Enchanted Island, Ligeti, Christmas Choral Music
45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Tom Service talks to Andreas Staier about Bach's Goldberg Variations; a new pasticcio The Enchanted Island opens at New York's Metropolitan Opera; and a book reassessing Ligeti.
The Early Music Show
The Worshipful Company of Musicians
1 hour on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Lucie Skeaping explores the originations of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, founded in 1500, and talks to two immediate past masters about its early existence. Show more
From the Wigmore Hall, London Fiona Talkington presents a recital in which soprano Veronique Gens and pianist Susan Manoff perform songs by Massenet, Gounod and Hahn. Show more
John Wilson selects music by Hollywood composers: Franz Waxman, Alfred Newman, Eric Korngold, Max Steiner, Miklos Rozsa, Bernard Herrmann, Elmer Bernstein and Jerry Goldsmith. Show more
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
Placido Domingo conducts the Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus in Puccini's Madama Butterfly. With Liping Zhang (Cio-Cio San) and Robert Dean Smith (Pinkerton). Show more
A feature in which three remarkable personal journeys intertwine to show how New York has become the capital of a global experiment in rhythm, music and dance. Show more
Music by Pierre Boulez, from the London Southbank Centre's Exquisite Labyrinth series. Domaines. Rozenn le Trionnaire (clarinet). Piano Sonata 1. Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano). Show more
Presented by Robert Worby and Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Christian Marclay: Graffiti Composition. James Dillon: String Quartet No 6. Plus Hear and Now 50: Morton Feldman: Extensions 3. Show more
An archive interview in which the late pianist and composer Michael Garrick joins Alyn Shipton to look back over 50 years in jazz, working with big bands and small groups. Show more
Jonathan Swain concludes a Mahler symphony cycle with the Tenth, completed by Deryck Cooke. Riccardo Chailly conducts the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Show more