Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 3; Beethoven piano sonata releases; Disc of the Week: Brahms: violin sonatas. Show more
Bridget Kendall tells the story of Stravinsky's 1962 trip to Russia after almost 50 years of living in exile and the impact the visit had on the composer and musicians in the USSR. Show more
Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of 16th-century German composer Michael Praetorius, most famous for his many Lutheran chorales and for his compendium of dances Terpsichore. Show more
Fiona Talkington introduces Trio Wanderer performing live at the Wigmore Hall in London. Beethoven: Variations in E flat, Op 44; Piano Trio in B flat, Op 97 (Archduke). Show more
James Jolly focuses on three of the star conductors whose centenaries are marked in 2012: Gunter Wand, Kurt Sanderling and Sergiu Celibidache. Show more
Alyn Shipton presents jazz requests including music by saxophonist Don Weller, Soft Machine, and pianist Art Tatum. Plus traditional jazz from Humphrey Lyttelton and Mike Daniels. Show more
Daniele Gatti conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in a production of Verdi's Falstaff, with Ambrogio Maestri. Presented by Ivan Hewett. Show more
From the Wigmore Hall in London, Fiona Talkington presents a concert in which soprano Sally Matthews and pianist Simon Lepper perform songs by Faure, Berg and Barber. Show more
A sonic journey along the river Cam exploring why thousands of Chinese tourists visit to remember a poem they all learnt in school, Xu Zhimo's Saying Goodbye to Cambridge Again. Show more
Anthony Gilbert: Mozart Sampler with Ground. BBC Symphony Orchestra/Zsolt Nagy. Michael Gordon: Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andre de Ridder. Show more
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Ensemble Modern in works by Helmut Lachenmann from the Aldeburgh Festival. Plus the Hear and Now 50: Hans Abrahamsen's Winternacht. Show more
Geoffrey Smith surveys the John Kirby Orchestra, once known as 'the biggest little band in the land', and which was once famed for arranging of pop, folk and classical music. Show more
John Shea presents the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in a Prom from 2011, featuring Grieg's Piano Concerto and Nielsen's Symphony No 4. Show more
