Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
With Sarah Walker. Including Artist of the Week: violinist and conductor Thomas Zehetmair; Sarah's Essential Choice: Shostakovich: Symphony No 5 in D minor, Op 47. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Cherubini's extraordinary political flexibility - which was an essential survival skill in post-revolutionary France. With Marche Funebre; Requiem (1816). Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Paris String Quartet Biennial
Episode 3: Modigliani Quartet, Borodin Quartet
58 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Concert given at the fifth String Quartets Biennial in Paris. Modigliani Quartet in Mendelssohn: String Quartet No 2. Borodin Quartet in Rihm: Grave - In Memoriam Thomas Kakuska. Show more
Katie Derham presents Elgar's oratorio The Apostles in a performance given at King's College, Cambridge. Stephen Cleobury conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents guests and music including the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Ensemble. Plus a weekly feature in which Team GB members are challenged to train to classical music. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Cherubini's extraordinary political flexibility - which was an essential survival skill in post-revolutionary France. With Marche Funebre; Requiem (1816). Show more
Steven Isserlis (cello) leads the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Haydn's Symphony No 104 (London). Isabelle Faust (violin) directs Mozart's Violin Concerto No 3, K216. Show more
Stephen Johnson explores Beethoven's Triple Concerto, Op. 56, a work which broke new ground with its combining of a piano trio with an orchestra. Show more
Steven Isserlis (cello), Isabelle Faust (violin) and Robert Levin (piano) join the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for a performance of Beethoven's Triple Concerto. Show more
Ahead of a performance of the play on Radio 3, Philip Dodd presents a programme devoted to Shakespeare's The Tempest. With director Jonathan Miller and scholar Helen Hackett. Show more
Art historian Professor Caroline Arscott considers Edward Lear's work as an artist. Before he became famous for poetry, Lear was an illustrator and landscape painter. Show more
Max Reinhardt presents A Particle of Light by Yoshiro Kanno, The Gap by Steve Lacy, Tiny Feathers by anna-anna, and En Phase/Hors Phase by Bernard Parmegiani. Plus Asha Bhosle. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents the Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra and soloist Ols Cinxo in Mendelssohn's D minor Violin Concerto and Mozart's Jupiter Symphony. Show more