Clemency Burton-Hill presents a Christmas edition of Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Show more
With Rob Cowan. CD of the Week: Incarnation - Christmas Music; Artist of the Week: Marc Minkowski; Broadcaster Sandi Toksvig; Rob's Essential Choice: Wagner: Siegfried Idyll. Show more
Donald Macleod discusses a four-hour concert Beethoven mounted in 1808, when he unveiled his Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, the Fourth Piano Concerto and other works. Show more
Andreas Staier (fortepiano) in Haydn: Sonata, H XVI 49. Plus Michael Nagy (baritone), Gerold Huber (piano) in songs by Wolf, and Isabelle Faust and friends in Brahms's Horn Trio. Show more
From the chapel of King's College, Cambridge, the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, based around nine Bible readings and interspersed with carols old and new. Show more
Presented by Louise Fryer. Includes Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting Concentus Musicus Wien in Haydn's The Storm, H XXIVa 8, plus Act 2 of Rameau's Les Indes Galantes. Show more
Sean Rafferty travels to Dorset to visit conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner at his organic farm. He talks about his music, farming and his life-long love passion for Bach. Show more
Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano) in music by Howells, Head, Barber and Poulenc. Zhang Zuo (piano) performs Bach and Schubert. Plus Elena Urioste (violin) in Vaughan Williams. Show more
A Prom in which the John Wilson Orchestra performs film scores by Alfred Newman, Kaper, Raksin, Herrmann, Korngold, Moross, Steiner, Waxman and Rozsa. Show more
Comic actress and writer Sally Phillips talks to Joan Bakewell about how her beliefs and philosophy have influenced her personal life and professional career. Show more
A Prom in which Nigel Kennedy, Palestine Strings and Members of the Orchestra of Life perform Vivaldi's Four Seasons. From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Show more
Max Reinhardt presents electro-acoustic sounds from Cuba by Juan Blanco, Richard Dawson and Rhodri Evans, a cappella folk from May Bradley, Miles Davis and Nancy Elizabeth. Show more
Berlioz's L'enfance du Christ from the Basilica of St Denis in Paris. James Conlon conducts the National Orchestra of France and the Choir of Radio France. With Jonathan Swain. Show more