Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Musical Map of Britain and listener requests. Show more
With Rob Cowan. CD of the Week: Piers Lane Goes to Town (Piers Lane: piano); Artist of the Week: Rafael Kubelik; Rob's Essential Choice: Brahms: String Quartet, Op 51 No 1. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on how Benjamin Britten became the foremost composer of opera in English and established his own festival. Show more
Soprano Ailish Tynan and pianist Joseph Middleton perform Schubert's musical settings of poetry by Shakespeare and Sir Walter Scott at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Show more
Penny Gore presents a performance of Viktor Ullmann's opera The Emperor of Atlantis. Plus a live BBC Philharmonic concert: music by Schuman, Copland and Roy Harris. Show more
Suzy Klein presents, with guests including composer Michael Berkeley and cellist Pieter Wispelwey. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on how Benjamin Britten became the foremost composer of opera in English and established his own festival. Show more
From City Halls, Glasgow, BBC SSO under Martyn Brabbins in a Britten celebration. Britten: Gloriana; 4 Chansons Francaises (with Elizabeth Watts: soprano). Mahler: Symphony No 4. Show more
Night Waves
Britten 100: Britten Libretti, Young Vic Theatre Uncut
45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
With Anne McElvoy. For Radio 3's Britten 100 season, Frances Spalding and Alexandra Harris discuss Myfanwy Piper's libretto writing. Plus the Young Vic's Theatre Uncut season. Show more
Writer Adam Gopnik discusses Cubism in 1913 Paris, considering it as a form of poetic realism, celebrating a civilisation on the point of suicide. Show more
Anne Hilde Neset presents a special collaborative session recording from Australian improv greats The Necks and celebrated free improv saxophonist Evan Parker. Show more
With John Shea. Including a concert given at the 2012 Proms, featuring the National Youth Orchestra of Britain under Vasily Petrenko performing Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony. Show more