Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Couperin; Artist of the Week: Rostropovich; Rob's Essential Choice: Poulenc: Mass in G; Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Jommelli's final years, when he faced financial crisis and his wife's illness. He travelled to Naples for the warmer climate and continued writing operas. Show more
From LSO St Luke's in London, Wendy Dawn Thompson and Eugene Asti perform Scumann's Frauenliebe und-Leben and three of his Mary Stuart Songs, plus songs by Mahler. Show more
Music performed by the BBC SO. Lutoslawski: Partita (Tamsin Little: violin); Chantefleurs et chantefables; Symphony No 4. Beethoven: Symphony No 6. Prokofiev: Na Denepre, Op 51. Show more
With live music from ngoni player Bassekou Kouyate with his band. Plus recorder player and director Philip Pickett and piper Carlos Nunez celebrating early Celtic ballads. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Jommelli's final years, when he faced financial crisis and his wife's illness. He travelled to Naples for the warmer climate and continued writing operas. Show more
Live from St David's Hall in Cardiff, Nicola Heywood Thomas presents a concert featuring the BBC NOW. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat (Emperor). Paul Lewis (piano). Show more
Stephen Johnson explores Britten's Spring Symphony, a work which polarises opinion more than anything else he wrote. Show more
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas, live from St David's Hall in Cardiff. Britten: Spring Symphony. BBC National Orchestra of Wales/David Atherton. Show more
The Verb
Cowboy Junkies, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Bryan and Mary Talbot, Pete Jordi Wood
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's 'Cabaret of the Word' with the Cowboy Junkies, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Bryan and Mary Talbot and Pete Jordi Wood. Show more
Professor Thomas Charles-Edwards discusses Offa, who was King of Mercia from 757 to 796 AD and effectively an early king of England.
Live from Glasgow, Mary Ann Kennedy broadcasts from one of the world's biggest winter music festivals Celtic Connections, with late-night performances from the Royal Concert Hall. Show more
John Shea presents a concert of Grieg and Sibelius from the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, with violinist Alexandra Soumm in Sibelius's two sets of Humoresques. Show more
