Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Show more
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra; Chamber music, by Schubert, Mozart, Messiaen; Disc of the Week: Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2.
Music Matters
Jonathan Harvey Tribute, William Christie, Royal Northern College of Music
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service pays tribute to composer Jonathan Harvey. Plus conductor William Christie and a celebration of 40 years of the Royal Northern College of Music.
Lucie Skeaping presents baroque chamber music from Austria and south Germany by Muffat, Biber, Marini, Fontana and Kerll, as performed by celebrated German group NeoBarock. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall, London, mezzo-soprano Christine Rice, tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Malcolm Martineau give an all-Britten programme, including the six Holderlin Fragments. Show more
Conductor John Wilson introduces a personal selection of music. With favourites from the musicals of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Show more
Alyn Shipton presents a selection of listeners' requests, with a focus on the blues. Show more
Live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Fabio Luisi conducts Verdi's opera Un Ballo in Maschera, starring Marcello Alvarez, Sondra Radvanovsky, Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Show more
Between the Ears
The Art and Craft of Approaching Your Head of Department to Submit a Request for a Raise
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Sound artist Dinah Bird records some peculiarities of ultra-hierarchal French office life and composes her version of the process writer Georges Perec' detailed about salary raises. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby introduce highlights from the 2012 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, including works from Donnacha Dennehy and John Cage. Show more
A celebration of guitarist Jim Hall, including his collaborations with Art Farmer, Bill Evans and Sonny Rollins. Show more
John Shea explores the music of American composer Frederick Converse, well-known in the US before World War II, with works played by the BBC Concert Orchestra under Keith Lockhart. Show more
