Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. With festival music and surprises, including the Breakfast Advent Calendar. Show more
With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Smorgasbord - Mats Lidstrom (cello) and Bengt Forsberg (piano); Sarah's Essential Choice: Schumann: Fantasie in C. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on how Louis XIV's death in 1715 brought changes for Michel Richard Delalande and Marin Marais. Show more
Adrian Brendel (cello) and Adrian Brendel (cello) in Brett Dean: Huntington Eulogy. Ralph Kirshbaum (cello), Simon Parkin (piano) in Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor, Op 40. Show more
John Shea presents the Vienna Philharmonic under conductor Tugan Sokhiev in Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov, telling of the decline and fall of a ruthless tsar. Show more
Presented by Sean Rafferty. With guests including tenor Rolando Villazon, harpist Catrin Finch with soprano Elin Manahan Thomas, plus conductor Paul McCreesh. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on how Louis XIV's death in 1715 brought changes for Michel Richard Delalande and Marin Marais. Show more
Concert in which Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in music by Bartok: Suite (The Miraculous Mandarin); Piano Concerto No 2 (soloist: Olli Mustonen). Show more
Discovering Music
Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis
20 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Stephen Johnson explores the relationship between Paul Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis and the themes by Carl Maria von Weber on which it is loosely based. Show more
Conclusion of a concert in which Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Hindemith: Trauermusik; Symphonic Metamorphosis of themes by Carl Maria von Weber. Show more
From The Sage Gateshead, columnist and youth worker Lindsay Johns argues that we should stop listening to the young, in a talk recorded for the 2012 Free Thinking Festival. Show more
Fiona Stafford discusses the willow, a strong, highly versatile and fast growing tree, potentially a saviour of the planet as a source for biofuels. Show more
Verity Sharp's selection includes music from Greece, by Stelios Petrakis and Apsilies, English folk from Fay Hield and young jazz trio Troyka. Show more
Nicola Hall introduces a recital of Beethoven, Brahms and Schoenberg given by pianist Leif Ove Andsnes in Geneva in 2011. Show more
