Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
With Sarah Walker. Including Artists of the Week: the Melos Ensemble; Novelist and journalist Andrew Martin; Sibelius: Symphony No 2 in D, Op 43 (CD Review Building a Library). Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on Prokofiev's debut in Paris and the importance of his links with Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes as he was trying to establish himself. Show more
Alina Ibragimova and Cedric Tiberghien perform three Schubert violin sonatinas. Show more
Music from the BBC NOW. Williams: Sea Sketches. Tailleferre: Concertino. Ravel: Introduction and Allegro. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5; Norfolk Rhapsody No 1. Debussy: La mer. Show more
Suzy Klein is live in Salford with guests including broadcaster and composer Howard Goodall and the BBC Philharmonic, and a range of music from the new Story of Music TV series. Show more
Verdi's opera I Lombardi, set at the time of the First Crusade, in a performance given in Florence in 2005. With conductor Roberto Abbado and bass Erwin Schrott. Show more
Matthew Sweet talks to playwright Michael Frayn as a season of his drama begins on Radios 3 and 4. Plus historian Richard Davenport-Hines on his new account of the Profumo scandal. Show more
Professor Michael G Wood explains why Marcel Proust's Swann's Way was important for Parisian culture and a turning point in the relationship between a writer and his characters. Show more
Jez Nelson presents a new collaboration between Scandinavian free-jazz trio The Thing and vocalist Neneh Cherry. With Mats Gustafsson, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten and Paal Nilssen-Love. Show more
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