Martin Handley presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with the Best of British Music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Show more
CD Review
Building a Library: Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
3 hours, 12 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
With Andrew McGregor. Building a Library: Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea; Early string music in recent recordings; Disc of the Week: Beethoven: Cello Sonatas Nos 1-5.
Music Matters
Maria Joao Pires, David and Christopher Alden, Andris Nelsons
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Presented by Tom Service. Including an interview with pianist Maria João Pires, conductor Andris Nelsons discussing Riga, plus the story of pianist and composer Andre Tchaikowsky. Show more
Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and pianist Julius Drake in a concert given at the Wigmore Hall in London. Berlioz: Les nuits d'ete. Mahler: Ruckert-Lieder. Show more
In the first of two programmes, pianist Noriko Ogawa explores musical connections to Japan, including works by Debussy, Bach and Takemitsu. Show more
Matthew Sweet introduces film scores on the subject of money by Max Steiner, Ernest Gold and others, and profiles the music for the new cinema release The Wolf of Wall Street. Show more
Alyn Shipton's selection of listeners' jazz requests includes music from Gerry Mulligan's Age of Steam, plus recordings by George Lewis and Charles Mingus.
Author Richard Havers talks to Julian Joseph about the legacy of Verve Records. Plus previously unbroadcast concert music from Empirical and the European Jazz Orchestra. Show more
Live from Bridgewater Hall, BBC Philharmonic under Juanjo Mena. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra; Three Hymns (Soile Isokoski: soprano); Don Quixote (Steven Isserlis: cello). Show more
Poet Paul Farley imagines himself a sound recordist taping the Garden of Eden and recalls the impoverished soundscape of his childhood. Show more
Presented by Tom Service. With the London Sinfonietta in Georg Friedrich Haas's in vain and the BBC SSO in Ligeti's Violin Concerto, featuring soloist Ilya Gringolts. Show more
Geoffrey Smith celebrates the work of the late pianist-composer Stan Tracey, introducing his music with combos and big bands, including the classic suite Under Milk Wood. Show more
Presented by Catriona Young. Including pianist Rudolf Buchbinder performing Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata, Haydn's E flat Sonata and Schubert's final Sonata in B flat. Show more
