Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week; Artist of the Week: clarinettist Eduard Brunner; Rob's Essential Choice: Korngold: Violin Concerto. Show more
Donald Macleod introduces some of the most celebrated music written for the soprano voice by Richard Strauss, much of which was inspired by his wife, soprano Pauline de Ahna. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
The Frick Collection
Episode 1: Schumann, Schoenberg, Gubaidulina, Beethoven
58 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Recital given at the Frick Collection in New York. Schumann: Maria Stuart Lieder. Schoenberg: Six Little Pieces, Op 19. Gubaidulina: String Quartet No 3. Beethoven: Sonata, Op 30. Show more
Louise Fryer with music played by orchestras from Berlin. Rota: Suite (La Strada). Shostakovich: Jazz Suite No 2. Ravel: Soupir, a 16; La vallee des cloches. Mahler: Symphony No 8. Show more
Presented by Sean Rafferty. With music from the Endellion String Quartet, pianist Freddy Kempf, and singers from the Classical Opera Company, including Lawrence Zazzo. Show more
Donald Macleod introduces some of the most celebrated music written for the soprano voice by Richard Strauss, much of which was inspired by his wife, soprano Pauline de Ahna. Show more
Radio 3 Live in Concert
London Symphony Orchestra - Bartok, Szymanowski
2 hours, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Concert in which Peter Eotvos conducts the London Symphony Orchestra. Bartok: Music for strings, percussion and celeste; Violin Concerto No 2. Szymanowski: Symphony No 3. Show more
What made Victorian women tick? Matthew Sweet delves into their psyche with the writers, Kate Summerscale and Sarah Ruhl and the historians, Kate Williams and Lynda Nead. Show more
Martin Gayford describes the experience of sitting for Lucian Freud over 18 months for the portrait Man with a Blue Scarf. For Gayford it was 'like a long dinner party for two'. Show more
Max Reinhardt introduces Lucas Santtana's remixes, Lukas Ligeti's Burkina Electric, Ligeti's Musica Ricercata, Abdullah Ibrahim's Tintinyana, and Jenny Hval's Engines in the City. Show more
Susan Sharpe presents a performance of Bizet's opera The Pearl Fishers given at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, featuring conductor Antonio Pappano. Show more
