Martin Handley presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with carols from the BBC Singers and listeners' requests in the Advent Calendar of seasonal music. Show more
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Dvorak: Symphony No 6. 10.30am conductor Jonathan Nott; Disc of the Week: Sonatas by Liszt, Rachmaninov and Grieg.
Music Feature
The Fantastical World of Robert Schumann
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Lucy Parham discovers how literature inspired Schumann to write some of his celebrated piano cycles - Papillons, Carnaval, Fantasiestucke and Kreisleriana. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall, London, Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a piano recital by Francesco Piemontesi. Schubert: Piano Sonata in B flat, D960. Debussy: Preludes: Book 1 (selection). Show more
Composer Richard Sisson introduces a sequence of music associated with winter, including works by Tchaikovsky, Offenbach, Sufjan Stevens and Purcell. Show more
Claire Martin presents a concert given at Sevenoaks School in Kent in which the BBC Big Band with trumpeter James Morrison and conductor Barrie Forgie perform festive classics. Show more
Along with seasonal jazz pieces, Alyn Shipton introduces music by Archie Shepp and Chet Baker. Show more
From the Metropolitan Opera in New York, James Conlon conducts Britten's Shakespeare adaptation A Midsummer Night's Dream, with Kathleen Kim as Tytania and Iestyn Davies as Oberon. Show more
Comedy thriller by Annie Griffin. Zawe Ashton stars as Jemima, on her first day at work at NEST, a company where none of the new employees are told what they are working on. Show more
From the 2013 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Robert Worby presents music by Dai Fujikura, Laurence Crane, Brian Ferneyhough and composer-in-residence Hector Parra. Show more
Geoffrey Smith presents Christmas music: Fats Waller and the Memphis Jug Band, seasonal reflections by James P Johnson and Charlie Parker and a visit to Vienna with Joe Zawinul. Show more
The Russian National Orchestra under Mikhail Pletnev in excerpts from Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake and Brahms's Violin Concerto with soloist David Grimal. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more
