Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the first instalment of Peter Donohoe's 50 Great Pianists, as part of Piano Season on the BBC. Show more

Rob Cowan celebrates the pianistic legacy of Stefan Askense, and introduces music inspired by autumn, plus the week's Bach cantata: No 47, played by Karl Ristenpart. Show more

Michael Berkeley talks to theatre director Michael Grandage, whose musical choices include Palestrina, Mozart, Arnold, Shostakovich and Britten. Show more

Lucie Skeaping explores the extraordinary competition instituted in 1683 by King Louis XIV to find four new chapel composers for his Chapelle Royal in Versailles. Show more

JoAnn Falletta conducts the Ulster Orchestra. Borodin: Polovtsian Dances. Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini (with Peter Donohoe: piano). Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade. Show more

From St Edmundsbury Cathedral. Show more

Aled Jones is joined by members of the Vienna Boys' Choir, to discuss their tour of the UK, after a gap of ten years. Aled also marks the birthday of Charles Villiers Stanford. Show more

Poetry and music on the theme of democracy with readings by Lisa Dillon and Ray Fearon. Show more

Dana Gioia traces developments in Californian poetry since the Beats in the 1950s, focusing on language, and ecological and Hispanic poems. Show more

By John Hodge. Alex Jennings and Simon Russell Beale star in a play depicting the relationship between writer Mikhail Bulgakov and Josef Stalin. Show more

Lopa Kothari presents highlights from the 2012 Darbar Festival of Indian classical music. With South Indian violin duo the Mysore Brothers and Joydeep Ghosh. Show more

Claire Martin is joined by composer and keyboard virtuoso Django Bates, who talks about the new CD from his band Django Bates Beloved Bird, entitled Confirmation. Show more

Piano Season on the BBC: John Shea presents a selection of archive piano performances featuring Dinu Lipatti, Geza Anda, Wilhelm Backhaus and more. Show more