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; Rob's Essential Choice: Strauss: Four Last Songs. Show more

Donald Macleod traces Rachmaninov and Medtner's journey to America, where the formerproved to be an invaluable source of help for the less worldly-wise Medtner. Show more

Ailish Tynan (soprano) and Barry Douglas (piano) in Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch (selection). And visiting musicians perform Schumann's String Quartet in A, Op 41. Show more

Louise Fryer present performances of music conducted by Herbert Blomstedt. Brahms: Eine Deutsches Requiem. Bruckner: Symphony No 7 in E. Show more

Presented by Sean Rafferty. Including a live performance from cellist Leonid Gorokhov with pianist Olga Vinokur. Our Piano A-Z continues with X for X-Treme. Show more

Donald Macleod traces Rachmaninov and Medtner's journey to America, where the formerproved to be an invaluable source of help for the less worldly-wise Medtner. Show more

Andrew Manze conducts the BBC Scottish SO in a concert at City Halls, Glasgow. Bacewicz: Concerto for String Orchestra. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4 (with Steven Osborne). Show more

An examination of how 1930s writers, artists and composers including Vaughan Williams used the pastoral mode to address the legacy of World War One. Show more

Live from City Halls, Glasgow. Andrew Manze conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Vaughan Williams's Symphony No 3 (Pastoral), featuring Ruby Hughes (soprano). Show more

Presented by Anne McElvoy. With Thomas Keneally discussing his new novel The Daughters of Mars, Barbara Hepworth Artworks illustrating surgeons at work, and musician David Byrne. Show more

Historian Tony Morris explores the life of Cuthbert, the popular saint of the Northeast, and his continuing appeal today, both on and far beyond his home, the island of Lindisfarne.

Presented by Fiona Talkington. With new albums from Bellowhead, and Show of Hands, young Norwegian trio Moskus and German/American/Spanish Benedikt Jahnel Trio. Show more

Nicola Hall introduces a concert given by the Slovenian Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra. They perform works by Rossini and Vivaldi plus Mozart's Prague Symphony. Show more