Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring 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: Rudolf Kempe: A Testament; MP Diane Abbott's favourite pieces of music; Schumann: Etudes symphoniques, Op 13. Show more

Donald Macleod pinpoints the early encounters of Rachmaninov and Medtner. Both graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire, but with very different levels of self-confidence. Show more

The Signum Quartet make their Wigmore Hall debut in 2012 in Schumann's String Quartet No 2 in F and Brahms's Quartet in C minor, Op 51 No 1, as Radio 3 New Generation Artists. Show more

Music conducted by Herbert Blomstedt. Bruckner: Symphony No 2. Bartok: Piano Concerto No 3 (with Olli Mustonen). Mozart: Symphony No 36. Plus Strauss, conducted by Andris Nelsons. Show more

Presented by Sean Rafferty. With guests including Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell, plus live music from the Australian String Quartet and pianist Jenny Lin. Show more

Donald Macleod pinpoints the early encounters of Rachmaninov and Medtner. Both graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire, but with very different levels of self-confidence. Show more

Live from Reid Hall, Edinburgh a piano recital by Igor Levit. Debussy: 6 Epigraphes antiques. Brahms: Study No 5 in D minor for the left hand after Bach's Chaconne. Show more

Sara Mohr-Pietsch and guests answer listeners' questions about anything to do with the piano, with musical illustration from Richard Sisson. Show more

From Reid Hall, Edinburgh, Tom Redmond presents the conclusion of a solo piano recital by Igor Levit. Rzewski: Let the People United Never be Defeated. Show more

Presented by Matthew Sweet. With an exhibition of Syrian art defying the Assad regime, why some institutions find it difficult to respond to abuse, and film writer David Thomson. Show more

Historian Richard Gameson discusses King Edwin, the ruler of Northumbria famous for his conversion to Christianity. Show more

For the BBC's piano season, Jez Nelson presents a special performance featuring six of the UK's leading jazz and improvising pianists playing two pianos - occasionally all at once. Show more

Jonathan Swain presents a concert in which the Casals Quartet plays Mozart, Shostakovich and Schubert's Death and the Maiden Quartet. Show more