Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.

With Rob Cowan. Includes Essential CD of the Week; Artist of the Week: pianist Murray Perahia; Rob's Essential Choice: Mozart: Piano Concerto in E flat, K449. Show more

Donald Macleod explores Gordon Jacob and Joseph Horovitz's early years, studying at the Royal College of Music. Show more

Music from Radio 3 New Generation Artists. Purcell: A Morning Hymn. Turnage: Cradle Song. Britten: Nocturnal after John Dowland. Ivor Gurney: Elizabethan Songs. Trish Clowes: Seven. Show more

The BBC Concert Orchestra performs music by Weill, Hindemith and Schoenberg at The Rest is Noise festival at London's Southbank Centre. Plus works by Busoni and Bartok. Show more

Sean Rafferty talks to composer Jonathan Dove about his Jane Austen opera, Mansfield Park, plus the stars of the National Ballet of Canada ahead of their London performances. Show more

Donald Macleod explores Gordon Jacob and Joseph Horovitz's early years, studying at the Royal College of Music. Show more

Live from the Barbican in London, Martin Handley presents a performance of Britten's chamber opera The Turn Of The Screw. Cast includes Andrew Kennedy and Sally Matthews. Show more

Philip Dodd talks to playwright Howard Brenton about his new play, The Arrest of Ai Wei Wei. Show more

Simon Keynes discusses the life of Aethelred, the Anglo-Saxon monarch who ruled over one of the most turbulent times of English history. Show more

Max Reinhardt presents recordings of Shortwave Number Stations from the Conet Project, Richard Dawson's new album The Glass Trunk, and old school music from the Memphis Jug Band. Show more

Nicola Christie presents Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra performing Beethoven's 7th and 8th Symphonies at the BBC Proms 2012. Show more