Victoria Meakin presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with listeners' requests in the Advent Calendar of seasonal music. Show more

Rob Cowan presents music on the theme of movement and motion, from Ponchielli, Paganini, Liszt and Khachaturian. Plus Hindmith, Faure and a Scarlatti cantata: O di Betlemme altera. Show more

Michael Berkeley's guest is film director Tom Hooper. His musical choices include Beethoven, Handel, The Beggar's Opera, Janacek and The Damned. Show more

Concert given by the Pavel Haas Quartet at the 2009 City of London Festival. Prokofiev: Sonata for two violins. Haydn: String Quartet in D minor. Prokofiev: String Quartet No 2. Show more

Lucie Skeaping celebrates the 40th anniversary of the UK's pioneering period orchestra, the Academy of Ancient Music, in the company of its music director, Richard Egarr. Show more

From Lichfield Cathedral. Show more

Mary King reports on the culmination of a unique project partnering young choral writers with lyricists under the tutelage of leading lights from both worlds. Show more

Juliet Stevenson and Michael Pennington are the readers in a sequence of poetry, prose and music evoking the spirit and art of Richard Wagner. Show more

Tom Service explores the ideas behind the theatre that Wagner built in Bayreuth for the ideal performance of his great music dramas, especially The Ring of the Nibelungs. Show more

Angela Hewitt (piano) performs at Wigmore Hall, London. Bach: English Suite No 3, BWV808. Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos 18 and 24. Bach: English Suite No 6 in D minor, BWV811. Show more

Guy Meredith's drama about the great operatic rivalry between Verdi and Wagner, marking the bicentenary of their births. With Kenneth Cranham as Wagner and Paul Rhys as Verdi. Show more

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs music by Piers Hellawell, Rolf Hind and Magnus Lindberg. Show more

With the Liege Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performing Henk de Vlieger's condensed version of Wagner's Ring cycle. Show more