Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring festive music and surprise features. Show more
With Andrew McGregor. Including Essential CD of the Week: Leonid Kogan in Italian and Spanish music; Artist of the Week: conductor Paavo Berglund; Bernstein: Symphony No 2. Show more
Donald Macleod introduces music from Brahms's first decade in Vienna as he established his reputation. Show more
Truls Mork (cello), Havard Gimse (piano) in Prokofiev: Cello Sonata and Rachmaninov: Vocalise. Stile Antico in Tallis: Gaude gloriosa and Byrd: O lord, make thy servant Elizabeth. Show more
Music performed by BBC orchestras in 2012. Humperdinck: Hansel und Gretel Overture. Part: Tabula Rasa (Alina Ibragimova, Barnabas Keleman: violins). Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 6. Show more
From Lichfield Cathedral. Show more
In Tune
London Handel Players, Katherine Broderick and Malcolm Martineau, Tamasin Day-Lewis
2 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Presented by Sean Rafferty. With live music from soprano Katherine Broderick with pianist Malcolm Martineau and London Handel Players. Plus food writer Tamasin Day-Lewis. Show more
Donald Macleod introduces music from Brahms's first decade in Vienna as he established his reputation. Show more
Radio 3 Live in Concert
Live from the chapel of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Episode 1: Tavener, Bax, Ireland, Finzi
50 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Fom the chapel of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, English music for Christmas performed by the BBC Singers and BBC Concert Orchestra, by Tavener, Bax, Ireland and Finzi. Show more
Stephen Johnson explores in detail Gerald Finzi's In Terra Pax, one of the composer's very last compositions before he died at the age of 55. Show more
Radio 3 Live in Concert
Live from the chapel of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Episode 2: Finzi, Howells, Bridge, Warlock, Vaughan Williams
1 hour, 20 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
The conclusion of a concert of English Christmas music from the BBC Singers and BBC Concert Orchestra. With works by Finzi, Howells, Bridge, Warlock and Vaughan Williams. Show more
Night Waves
Bernard Rose, Public Inquiries, Tuberculosis, Mughal India
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Presented by Philip Dodd. With Bernard Rose's film Boxing Day, a discussion about public inquiries, the history of tuberculosis, and a British Library exhibition on Mughal India. Show more
New Testament stories revisited and set in present-day pre-Christmas London. Frazer Flintham's version of the Good Servant parable, set in a beauty store with an absentee boss. Show more
Max Reinhardt's festive selection includes tracks such as Advent Prose, In Deng, Frolic Sam, Frost Texas Tornado Blues and Playford's Christmas Ball. Show more
John Shea continues the Sergiu Celibidache celebration with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Berwald's Sinfonie singulière, plus Beethoven Symphony no 7. Show more
