Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, including at 8.30am an instalment of Peter Donohoe's 50 Great Pianists and Piano Your Call, for the BBC's piano season. Show more
With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Sergei Nakariakov: Trumpet and Piano; Physicist Brian Foster's favourite pieces of music; Janacek: String Quartets. Show more
Donald Macleod explains how witnessing the great violin virtuoso Paganini perform in Paris inspired Liszt to extend his piano technique even further. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall, London, Sarah Walker presents a piano recital by Noriko Ogawa. Takemitsu: Rain Tree Sketch II. Debussy: 12 Etudes. Show more
Music played in Romania by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No 1. Schubert: Symphony No 9. Janacek: Pohadka. Plus Sergio Tiempo in Liszt: Piano Concerto No 1. Show more
Presented by Suzy Klein. With live music and guests, including internationally renowned pianist Angela Hewitt, the Vienna Boys' Choir, and artists from the English Touring Opera. Show more
Donald Macleod explains how witnessing the great violin virtuoso Paganini perform in Paris inspired Liszt to extend his piano technique even further. Show more
Alexei Grynyuk performs piano music by Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op 61; Nocturne Op 9 No 3; Three Mazurkas, Op 68; Nocturne, Op 27 No 1; Polonaise, Op 53 (Heroic). Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch and guests answer questions about anything to do with the piano, and Richard Sisson presents a guide to main piano keys used by the great composers. Show more
Live from Wavendon Stables, the conclusion of a live piano recital by Alexei Grynyuk. Liszt: Sonata in B minor. Liszt-Horowitz: Hungarian Rhapsody No 2. Show more
Night Waves
Eric Hobsbawm, Mark Mazower, Madness and Incarceration
45 minutes
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Matthew Sweet discusses the life and legacy of the celebrated and controversial Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm. Show more
Professor Scott Lash discusses the concept of 'liquid Modernity', the ability to move information - and money - almost instantly across the world. Show more
Jez Nelson presents two sessions as part of the Radio 3 piano season: John Law and his Art of Sound trio, and a left-hand-only recording by Robert Mitchell. Show more
John Shea presents a progamme of Mozart and Paganini with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and conductor Diego Fasolis. Show more
