Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
With Andrew McGregor. 9.00am Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in C, Op 9 No 1. 10.00am Debussy: Jeux. 10.30am 20th-century and contemporary string quartets. 11.40am Shostakovich: Preludes.
Iain Burnside considers the idea of how hands, fingers, thumbs and their use have directly affected Western keyboard composition. With works by Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Ligeti. Show more
Highlights from a concert by Ensemble Villancico of early music from Ecuador introduced by Catherine Bott from the York Early Music Festival. Show more
British mezzo-soprano Alice Coote and her regular accompanist Julius Drake perform a personal selection of French songs by Gounod, Saint-Saens, Faure, Satie, Hahn and Poulenc. Show more
Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani joins the Academy of Ancient Music to perform Bach's Art of Fugue in a new instrumental arrangement by Esfahani himself. Show more
Tenor Ben Johnson performs a bittersweet collection of lute songs by Renaissance song master John Dowland, as part of a series featuring the talents of the New Generation Artists. Show more
Alyn Shipton presents a selections of listeners' jazz requests, including music by the New Orleans bands of George Lewis and Barry Martyn, and contemporary jazz by Martin Taylor. Show more
Texts and music on the theme of monarchs, with readings by Samantha Bond and Simon Chandler. Includes Shakespeare, Schiller and Carroll, plus Handel, Walton, Donizetti, Schumann. Show more
Daniel Barenboim conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in the second concert of their Beethoven symphony cycle. Beethoven: Symphony No 4. Boulez: Dialogue de I'ombre double. Show more
To accompany two concerts by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Paul Farley explores the original 'West-Eastern Divan', Goethe's tribute to Persian poetry. Show more
Daniel Barenboim conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in the second concert of their Beethoven symphony cycle. With Beethoven's Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica). Show more
The story of flautist Guo Yue's musical childhood in Beijing and his fraught path to virtuosity during the Cultural Revolution, told through memories, music and sounds of China. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces new choral works by Judith Bingham, Hugh Wood and Lauri Supponen, performed at the 2012 Cheltenham Festival by the BBC Singers conducted by David Hill. Show more
From trio to quartet, sextet and septet, Benny Goodman has been called the father of chamber jazz. Geoffrey Smith surveys his achievements. Show more
Susan Sharpe presents a concert by the Oslo Philharmonic conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste, including Sibelius' 7th Symphony and Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto with Nelson Freire. Show more
