Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast Show.
With Andrew McGregor. Includes Building a Library: Verdi: Otello. Chamber music by Faure, Franck, Ravel, Shostakovich and Schubert; Disc of the Week: Jonathan Harvey: Bird Concerto.
Tom Service talks to pianist Richard Goode. Plus the legacy of Polish composer Karol Szymanowksi, a rediscovered opera by Coleridge-Taylor, and Antonio Pappano on opera in 2012.
The Early Music Show
Composer Portrait - Niccolo Jommelli
16 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of composer Niccolo Jommelli, whose operatic reforms in the mid-18th century made him a widely-regarded figure in his day. Show more
Alexander Melnikov in a piano recital from Wigmore Hall, London. Brahms:16 Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann; Scherzo in E flat minor, Op 4; Sonata No 2 in F sharp minor. Show more
Violinist Tasmin Little selects music that inspired her as a child and at school. With Smetana, Wagner, Haydn and Puccini, as well as Tchaikovsky's None But the Lonely Heart. Show more
From the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Fabio Luisi conducts a lavish production of Gotterdammerung, Wagner's conclusion to his epic Ring Cycle. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents new British music, by Cardew, Skempton, Harvey, Matthews, Woolrich, Cashian, Hind and Hoddinott. Plus Hear and Now Fifty: Milton Babbitt's Philomel. Show more
John Shea's selection includes the Radio National de France conducted by Jaap van Zweden performing music by Stravinsky, Bernstein and Tchaikovsky. Show more