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Building a Library: Tchaikovsky: Hamlet Fantasy Overture
3 hours, 12 minutes on BBC Radio 3
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Tchaikovsky: Hamlet Fantasy Overture; Beethoven and Brahms chamber music; Disc of the week: Schubert: Winterreise.
Pianist and comedian Rainer Hersch learns how to prepare a piano, as John Cage did to simulate a percussion orchestra for a ballet score he was writing. Show more
To celebrate the 850th anniversary of the first stone of Notre Dame de Paris being laid, Catherine Bott explores the beginnings of music in the great cathedral.
Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano) gives a piano recital at the Wigmore Hall, London. Schumann: Papillons. Liszt: Petrarch Sonnet No 104. Tchaikovsky: Grand Sonata in G, Op 37. Show more
Violinist Daniel Hope selects recordings reflecting his life in music and that of his instrument, a 1742 Guarneri, known as the 'Ex-Lipinski'. Show more
Live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Harry Bicket conducts Handel's Giulio Cesare, a version of the Caesar and Cleopatra story. With David Daniels and Natalie Dessay. Show more
Alyn Shipton presents a selection of listeners' jazz choices, including music by British pianist Mike Taylor, American composer Maria Schneider and young vocalist Ally Kemp. Show more
Tom Service presents music by London-based composer Dai Fujikura interleaved with that by New Yorkers Elliott Carter, Alvin Lucier, John Zorn and Felipe Lara. Show more
Geoffrey Smith picks some examples of jazz with a Latin impulse, from Jelly and Dizzy Gillespie to Stan Getz and Richard Galliano. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents a concert given at the 2012 Proms, featuring music by Weber, Mahler and Tchaikovsky performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with guest Alice Coote. Show more