Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Vivaldi operas. Plus Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms symphonies; Disc of the Week: Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier (Book 2).
Music Feature
If Chimes Could Whisper - The Strange Tale of the Glass Armonica
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Evelyn Glennie celebrates the 250th birthday of one of the most unusual of all musical instruments, the glass armonica, invented in 1762 by Benjamin Franklin. Show more
The Early Music Show
Highlights from the 2012 Resonanzen Festival in Vienna
58 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Catherine Bott presents highlights from the 2012 Resonanzen Festival in Vienna, including music from that city by Mattheis, Biber, Bononcini and Neidhart von Reuental. Show more
Actress Brigit Forsyth selects music illustrating her love of the cello, by Bach, Shostakovich, Vivaldi, Moeran and Glass, from Jacqueline du Pre, Casals and Rostropovich. Show more
From the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Fabio Luisi conducts part two of Wagner's Ring Cycle, Die Walkure. With Katarina Dalayman, Bryn Terfel and Frank Van Aken. Show more
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
Tom Service presents Jonathan Harvey's Song Offerings and Summer Clouds Awakening. Plus the Hear and Now 50: Symphonie pour un homme seul by Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry. Show more
Alyn Shipton presents archive interviews with Kenny Baker, Vic Lewis, Coleridge Goode and Annie Ross. They select some of the highlights of British jazz from 1930 to the 1960s. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents Bartok's Piano Concerto No 3 in a performance given at the 2011 Proms, with Andras Schiff (piano) and the Halle under conductor Mark Elder. Show more
