Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
With Andrew McGregor. Geoffrey Smith recommends a recording of Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale and Simon Heighes discusses opera releases by Pergolesi, Gluck and Cherubini.
With Tom Service, including a report from the new Mariinsky II in St Petersburg, plus a biography of one of the great operatic impresarios of the bel canto era, Domenico Barbaja. Show more
Lucie Skeaping considers music and the 18th-century painter Antoine Watteau, master of evocative sensuality and the fete galante, a third of whose canvases depict musical scenes. Show more
Saturday Classics
Mozart, Beethoven and Benny Goodman, Chosen by Clarinettist Emma Johnson
2 hours, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Clarinettist Emma Johnson presents her personal choice of music for wind instruments, including works by Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Brahms, Strauss, Poulenc, Milhaud & Benny Goodman. Show more
Poulenc's opera Les Dialogues des Carmelites live from The Metropolitan Opera in New York with Isabel Leonard, Patricia Racette, Felicity Palmer, Elizabeth Bishop and Erin Morley. Show more
Alyn Shipton plays a selection of listeners' jazz requests, including tracks by Art Pepper, Keith Ingham, and Marty Grosz. Plus guitarist Cedric West plays music by Kenny Wheeler. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall, Ukrainian-born pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk plays Mozart's Rondo, Preludes by Rachmaninov and Mussorgsky's colourful Pictures at an Exhibition. Show more
Tom Service introduces Sunken Garden, Michel van der Aa's new opera to a libretto by novelist David Mitchell, performed in April at the Barbican Theatre by English National Opera. Show more
A teenage prodigy with Benny Goodman, pianist Mel Powell produced dazzling solos and compositions. Geoffrey Smith celebrates a rare talent. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents music for Orthodox Easter. Show more