Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2; the Artemis, Wihan and Italian Quartets; Disc of the Week: Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique. Show more
Tom Service visits cafes, art-houses and research institutes of Paris to get the French view of the composer on the 150th anniversary of his birth.
Lucie Skeaping introduces performances recorded in Philadelphia by the ensemble Tempesta di Mare - with music by Vivaldi, Pisendel, Telemann, Dall'Abaco and Fasch. Show more
Live from the Wigmore Hall in London, German baritone Florian Boesch and pianist Malcolm Martineau perform Schumann's powerful song cycle Dichterliebe and songs by Schubert. Show more
In the first of two programmes on the class of 1912, James Jolly explores two of the star conductors who celebrate their centenaries this year: Leinsdorf and Markevitch. Show more
Alyn Shipton presents listeners' jazz requests, including Nat King Cole, saxophone playing by JR Monterose and Dixieland from Barney Bigard. Plus music from singer Norma Winstone. Show more
Constantinos Carydis conducts a performance of Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, given at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Bass Erwin Schrott plays the title role. Show more
From the Sargasso to Somerset, and back, alive; and, jellied, smoked and sushi, all over world as food. Through history, too. James Crowden traces the writhing odyssey of eels. Show more
HK Gruber conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in his 1999 Proms commission Aerial, featuring Reinhold Friedrich playing a variety of trumpets. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces works by Goehr and Maxwell Davies performed by the Nash Ensemble, and in the Hear and Now 50 Barbara Hannigan champions Claude Vivier's Lonely Child. Show more
A personal journey taking in great musicians and great music. Geoffrey Smith surveys the celebrated partnership and individual careers of saxophonists Al Cohn and Zoot Sims. Show more
John Shea presents a concert from the 2011 Proms. With the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer in Mahler's Symphony No 1, plus pianist Dejan Lazic in Liszt's Totentanz. Show more
