Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week; Artist of the Week: clarinettist Michael Collins; Sarah's Essential Choice: Debussy: Images for orchestra. Show more

Donald Macleod discusses Nielsen's childhood, which he later recalled with great affection in his choral masterpiece Springtime in Funen. Show more

The Britten Sinfonia performs music by Britten, Lutoslawski and Dobrinka Tabakova at West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge. Show more

Including the BBC NOW in a live concert: Liszt: Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe. Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 2. Schumann: Symphony No 2. Plus Lyadov: Baba-Yaga. Debussy: Printemps. Show more

Live music from vocal consort Alamire, cellist James Barralet with pianist Simon Callaghan plus star tenor Juan Diego Florez and director-designer Charlie Edwards. Show more

Donald Macleod discusses Nielsen's childhood, which he later recalled with great affection in his choral masterpiece Springtime in Funen. Show more

The Philharmonia under Vasily Petrenko performs at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Lyadov: The Enchanted Lake. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 (soloist: Nikolai Lugansky). Show more

Hattie Morahan reads Pushkin's story about the enmity between two landowners and the antics of their children Aleksey and Liza. Show more

Live from the Royal Festival Hall in London, the Philharmonia Orchestra's concert under Vasily Petrenko concludes with a performance of Prokofiev's Symphony No 5 in B flat. Show more

Rana Mitter presents a first-night review of the National Theatre's new production of Shakespeare's Othello, featuring Adrian Lester in the title role and Rory Kinnear as Iago. Show more

Novelist Romesh Gunesekera talks about Kunming, which he considers to be unlike any other modern Chinese city. Show more

Music from Afghanistan, Scotland and Portugal. Plus the beautiful sound of Ronu Majumdar's bansuri flute from India, and a 15th Century lament by Ockeghem. With Fiona Talkington. Show more

Susan Sharpe's selection includes a concert performance of the opera Pierre de Medicis by 19th-century Polish composer Jozef Michal Poniatowski. Show more