Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring festive music and surprise features. Show more
With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Grieg Choral Music; Artists of the Week: Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert; Essential Choice: Dvorak: Serenade for Strings. Show more
Donald explains how Offenbach's La vie parisienne and Les Brigands entertained the Parisian home crowd, and the composer tried his hand at romantic opera in Vienna. Show more
From the Schwetzingen Festival 2012: Emerson Quartet in Dvorak: String Quartet No 12; Cypresses. Andras Schiff in Schubert: Impromptu No 1, D946. Plus Faure: 5 Melodies, Op 58. Show more
From European music festivals: Bach: Orchestral Suite No 2. Samaniego: Sonoras voces el aire pueblan. Liszt: Piano Concerto No 1 Salieri: Venite gentes. Mozart: Symphony No 39. Show more
An archive service from 2008 of music and readings offering a meditation on Christ's Nativity, with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Show more
Act 2 of Wagner's Die Walkure, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. With Bryn Terfel as Wotan, Eva-Maria Westbroek as Sieglinde and Susan Bullock as Brunnhilde. Show more
Tenor Ben Johnson concludes his two years on the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme with a performance of Schubert's tragic and bittersweet song cycle Die Schone Mullerin. Show more
A Prom from 2012 in which the John Wilson Orchestra and a cast of leading soloists present a tribute to the composers and arrangers responsible for creating 'the Broadway sound'. Show more
Joan Bakewell is joined by writer, actor and director Julian Fellowes. He talks about the late flowering of his reputation as a writer and how his Catholic beliefs shape his work. Show more
Organ virtuoso Cameron Carpenter continues to explore the music of JS Bach, performed both as Bach originally wrote it and in adaptations and improvisations by Carpenter himself. Show more
With Max Reinhardt. Including Dr Heckle and Mr Jibe, Woodpecker Wooliams, Night Frost Settles on a Pumpkin, 24 Lies Per Second, and Johnny Guitar Watson's Lonely Lonely Feelings. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents the first of two concerts from the 2012 Martha Argerich Project in Lugano. Including Mozart's Piano Concerto No 25 in C, K503. Show more
