Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring our Advent Calendar and listener requests. Show more
Rob Cowan explores the serenade, with examples by Mozart, Bernstein and Silvestrov. Plus Vladimir Horowitz in themes and variations and a Telemann cantata: Machet die Tore weit. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is singer Laura Mvula. Her musical choices include Debussy Elgar, Tippett, Walton and her music teacher, Joe Cutler, plus Nina Simone and Miles Davis. Show more
The Nash Ensemble performs Schubert's Octet in F for wind and strings, D803 at LSO St Luke's in London. Show more
The Early Music Show
Notker the Stammerer and the Abbey of St Gall
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Lucie Skeaping explores the Abbey of St Gall and its role in the development of chant, and how a young monk named Notker the Stammerer came to write a revolutionary kind of music. Show more
From the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge. Show more
Choir and Organ
Greg Beardsell - Truro Cathedral Choir, Blossom Street
1 hour, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Greg Beardsell finds out about the history of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols and its connection to Cornwall. Plus Hilary Campbell about her choral group Blossom Street. Show more
Texts and music on the theme of fairy tales, with readings by Hayley Atwell and Tim Pigott-Smith. With Medtner, Szymanowski and Dvorak, plus the Brothers Grimm and Margaret Atwood. Show more
Sunday Feature
A Profile of Ken Adam: The Spectre of Modernism
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Matthew Sweet meets Ken Adam, designer of famous film sets from Dr No and Goldfinger to Dr Strangelove and The Ipcress File. Show more
Martin Baker in an organ recital from Westminster Cathedral. Dupre: Le monde dans l'attente du sauveur. Bach: Nun komm. Widor: Andante sostenuto. Messiaen: La Nativite du Seigneur. Show more
By Howard Barker. Dark comedy set in China in which a banished poet (Richard E Grant) faces a major dilemma after he falls in love with a grandee's wife. Show more
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Edward McGuire: The Spirit of Wallace. Giles Swayne: Chinese Whispers (Kevin Bowyer: organ). James MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie. Show more
Catriona Young's selection includes three Czech cello concertos from the classical era, by Stamitz, Vranicky and Antonin Kraft. Show more
