Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony; Recent choral releases; Disc of the Week: Britten: Serenade; Nocturne. Finzi: Dies Natalis.
Music Feature
The Sound That Burned: The Queen's Hall 70th Anniversary
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Andrew Green tells the story of the last days of London's Queen's Hall, which was destroyed in the Blitz in 1941. It was one of the great concert venues in Europe. Show more
Catherine Bott celebrates the centenary of the birth of pioneering countertenor Alfred Deller. She is joined by singers James Bowman, Mark Deller and Robin Blaze. Show more
Johannes Moser (cello) and Paul Rivinius (piano) in a recital from the Wigmore Hall in London. Brahms: Cello Sonata No 1 in E minor, Op 38. Britten: Cello Sonata in C, Op 65. Show more
Zeb Soanes chooses works linked to the sea, by Britten, Wagner, Zemlinsky, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Elgar and Sibelius. With the Nash Ensemble, Berlin Philharmonic and Kathleen Ferrier. Show more
Alyn Shipton presents jazz requests, including Horace Silver, John McLaughlin, and Michel Petrucciani. Plus Acker Bilk, Turk Murphy, Finn Peters and Kaz Simmons. Show more
From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano conducts Mozart's great comic opera The Marriage of Figaro, starring Ildebrando D'Arcangelo and Aleksandra Kurzak. Show more
An evocation of life working in coal mines and the accompanying fictional and real-life dramas. With sounds, archive material, as well as prose and poetry. Show more
From City Halls, Glasgow, Saar Berger (horn) and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov perform Richard Ayres's Noncerto (No 36). Show more
Presented by Tom Service. Lontano play music by Raymond Yiu, Robert Keeley and Brian Elias. Plus the Hear and Now 50: Siobhan Davies analyses Kevin Volans's White Man Sleeps. Show more
Geoffrey Smith surveys the career of drumming great Roy Haynes, who has played alongside musicians including Lester Young, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Chick Corea. Show more
Susan Sharpe presents a programme of music by Rebel, Zelenka, Telemann and CPE Bach, featuring the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra conducted by Gottfried von der Goltz. Show more
