Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Can-Can and Other Dances from the Opera; Artist of the Week; The Story of Music in 50 Pieces: Mozart: Serenade in B flat (Gran Partita). Show more
Composer of the Week
Avison and Stanley (1709-1770 and 1712-1786)
Episode 5: Stanley Takes Over from Handel
1 hour on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod focuses on how John Stanley's organ performances captivated audiences, including Handel. Show more
Marcus Farnsworth (baritone) and Joseph Middleton (piano) perform music inspired by winter at the 2012 Lammermuir Festival, by Quilter, Ireland, Argento, Finzi, Bridge and Strauss. Show more
Music from the Cleveland Orchestra. CPE Bach: Sinfonia in D, Wq 183 No 1. Sibelius: Symphony No 7. Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks. Dvorak: Te Deum. Bruckner: Symphony No 5. Show more
Suzy Klein with live music violinist Sophie Rosa and clarinettist Linda Merrick. Plus The Story of Music in 50 Pieces continues with Dove sono from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. Show more
Composer of the Week
Avison and Stanley (1709-1770 and 1712-1786)
Episode 5: Stanley Takes Over from Handel
1 hour on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod focuses on how John Stanley's organ performances captivated audiences, including Handel. Show more
Tadaaki Otaka conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op 62. Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 63 (soloist: Sayaka Shoji). Show more
Stephen Johnson explores Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5. Show more
Live from St David's Hall in Cardifff, Tadaaki Otaka conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No 5 in D minor, Op 57. Show more
Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's Cabaret of the Word from Gorilla in Manchester with James Yorkston, John Hegley, Sophie Hannah and Polarbear. Show more
Richard Mabey asks what the weather means to us nowadays. Show more
Lopa Kothari presents music from around the world, including a session with Malian band Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents music by Nielsen, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, J Strauss II, Stenhammar, Mehul, Rosenmuller, Haydn, Bach, Mendelssohn, Elgar, Rimsky-Korsakov, Chopin and Brahms. Show more