Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Telemann Wind Concertos; Michael Tilson Thomas; Sarah's Essential Choice: Beethoven: Sonata No 8 in A, Op 47 (Kreutzer). Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on the exotic sounds Puccini created for his east Asian tale of love and loss, Madam Butterfly. Show more
Music by Beethoven played at the 2012 East Neuk Festival. Llyr Williams in Piano Sonata in E, Op 109. Leipzig Quartet in String Quartet in E, Op 127. Show more
Verdi's Shakespearean masterpiece Otello in a performance given at Venice's Teatro La Fenice. With Gregory Kunde and Leah Crocetto. Show more
Presented by Sean Raafferty. Including live music from the Fugata Quintet with composer Michael Csányi-Wills, plus pianist Gilles Vonsattel. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on the exotic sounds Puccini created for his east Asian tale of love and loss, Madam Butterfly. Show more
Pianist Kirill Gerstein performs at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Mehldau: Variations on a melancholy theme (UK premiere). Brahms: Paganini variations, Op 35. Show more
Dermot Crowley reads Stefan Zweig's classic story about the discovery on Lake Geneva of a man clinging to driftwood. Just who is this stranger talking in an odd language? Show more
Pianist Kirill Gerstein performs at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Haydn: Variations, H XVII 6 (Un Piccolo divertimento). Schumann: Carnaval - scenes mignonnes sur quatre notes. Show more
Night Waves
Silence, Geffrye Museum, Edward Petherbridge, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
45 minutes
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Anne McElvoy talks to Diarmaid MacCulloch. His book Silence in Christian History explores silence throughout Christianity, from mystical contemplation to purposeful forgetting. Show more
Writer and philosopher Roger Scruton talks to Joan Bakewell about the beliefs that underpin his work. Show more
Fiona Talkington presents music from Earl Bostic recorded in 1959, Finnish accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen, pianist Jeremy Denk playing Ligeti, and Austrian hang player Manu Delago. Show more
John Shea's selection includes a recital in which tenor Christoph Pregardien sings lieder by Schumann and Mahler. Show more
