Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Can-Can and Other Dances from the Opera; Artist of the Week: Marc-Andre Hamelin; Baroness Floella Benjamin; Bach: St Matthew Passion (excpt). Show more
Composer of the Week
Avison and Stanley (1709-1770 and 1712-1786)
Episode 3: Avison Falls into Depression
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod focuses on Avison's distress at changing musical tastes and the deaths of his wife, and friend and mentor, Francesco Geminiani. Show more
Sophie Bevan (soprano) and Joseph Middleton (piano) perform songs for a summer's day at the 2012 Lammermuir Festival. Show more
Penny Gore presents performances given by the Cleveland Orchestra. Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs; Towards the Unknown Region. Rossini: Stabat Mater. Show more
From Salisbury Cathedral. Show more
Suzy Klein presents live music from pianist Imogen Cooper and the Prince Consort. Plus choreographer Henri Oguike and The Story of Music in 50 Pieces: Bach: Prelude in C, BW846. Show more
Composer of the Week
Avison and Stanley (1709-1770 and 1712-1786)
Episode 3: Avison Falls into Depression
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3Donald Macleod focuses on Avison's distress at changing musical tastes and the deaths of his wife, and friend and mentor, Francesco Geminiani. Show more
Joshua Weilerstein conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a concert from the BBC's Maida Vale Studios. Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite. Barber: Cello Concerto (soloist: David Cohen). Show more
Stephen Johnson explores Dvorak's Eighth Symphony. Show more
Petroc Trelawny presents the conclusion of a concert from the BBC's Maida Vale studios in London. Joshua Weilerstein conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Dvorak's Symphony No 8. Show more
Night Waves
Ice Age Art, Nadeem Aslam, No, Rumer Godden
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Presented by Samira Ahmed. With the British Museum's Ice Age art exhibition, Pakistani writer Nadeem Aslam, a review of the new film No, and discussion on the work of Rumer Godden. Show more
Richard Mabey explores the downside of weather on our imaginations and our ordinary experience. Show more
Fiona Talkington presents music from YokoThurstonKim, a 1950s recording of the Luo people of Kenya, Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara and Duke Ellington's 23rd Psalm. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents a recital of songs by Chopin and his contemporaries performed by soprano Dorothee Mields, interspersed with Chopin Nocturnes by pianist Nelson Goerner. Show more
