Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. With V in the A-Z of film music with Vaughan Williams and Villa-Lobos, and Andrew Hoellering talking about his film-producer father, George. Show more
Essential Classics
Wednesday - Rob Cowan: Sound of Cinema
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
With Rob Cowan. CD of the Week: The Vagabond: Bryn Terfel/Malcolm Martineau; Artists of the Week: Beaux Arts Trio; Sound of Cinema with Neil Brand: Copland: Suite (The Heiress). Show more
John Williams talks to Donald Macleod about his score for Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, and working with a very different director: Alfred Hitchcock. Show more
The Szymanowski Quartet and cellist Steven Isserlis with pianist Sam Haywood play chamber music by Dvorak and Bach at the 2013 Ryedale Festival in North Yorskshire. Show more
Penny Gore presents music associated with film director Luchino Visconti. Verdi: Overture (La forza del destino). Mahler: Symphony No 5. Show more
From Westminster Abbey. Introit: Gabriel Jackson Responses: Leighton Psalms: Hopkins Canticles: Parry Anthem: Give Unto the Lord (Elgar) Voluntary: Bowen. Show more
In Tune
Orchestra Mozart, Sam Lee, David Pountney, Richard Dyer: Sound of Cinema
2 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Presented by Sean Rafferty. With live music from folk singer Sam Lee, plus opera director David Pountney on his libretto for the premiere of The Wasp Factory in Covent Garden. Show more
John Williams talks to Donald Macleod about his score for Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, and working with a very different director: Alfred Hitchcock. Show more
Radio 3 Live in Concert
Live from the Lighthouse, Poole
Episode 1: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Wagner, Rachmaninov (part 1)
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Jac van Steen conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in excerpts from Wagner operas: Die Meistersinger, Das Rheingold, Tannhauser and Tristan und Isolde. Show more
Discovering Music
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3
20 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Stephen Johnson looks beyond the virtuosic in Rachmaninov's third Piano Concerto to get to its reflective, melancholic Russian heart.
Radio 3 Live in Concert
Live from the Lighthouse, Poole
Episode 2: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Wagner, Rachmaninov (part 2)
1 hour, 25 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Live from the Lighthouse, Poole, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's concert under Jac van Steen concludes with Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 3, featuring Valentina Lisitsa. Show more
In a series from ZSL London Zoo, Matthew Sweet is joined by Margaret Drabble, Iain Sinclair and Jonathan Powell to discuss Angus Wilson's 1961 novel The Old Men at the Zoo. Show more
Academic and social critic Camille Paglia discusses the film scores which have inspired her since childhood, including the work of Bernard Herrmann, John Dankworth and Max Steiner. Show more
Fiona Talkington's varied selection includes Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the Hutton School Choir and Lal Waterson, plus widescreen music for the Sound of Cinema season. Show more
Jonathan Swain's selection inlcudes a piano recital given by Peter Donohoe. Show more
