Martin Handley presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with the Best of British Music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Plus neglected composers and amateur music groups. Show more
Rob Cowan explores the nocturne, with examples by Chopin, Debussy, Faure and Sibelius. Plus Steve Reich's Tehillim and the latest Mozart symphony: No 35 in D, K385 (Haffner). Show more
Michael Berkeley's guests is chief medical officer Sally Davies. Her musical choices include Mozart, Brahms, Wagner, Vaughan Williams, Rossini, Beethoven and Queen. Show more
The Wihan Quartet in a live recital from LSO St Luke's in London. Mozart: String Quartet in D minor, K421. Dvorak: String Quartet in F, Op 96 (American). Show more
Lucie Skeaping delves into Rameau's comic masterpiece Platee. A colourful work, it turned many of the operatic conventions of the 18th century on their head. Show more
Live from the Royal Festival Hall in London, Sara Mohr Pietsch presents a concert featuring the San Francisco Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas in Mahler's Symphony No 3. Show more
From the Chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch discusses choral holidays, meets singer and vocal coach Linda Hirst and introduces Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music as her Choral Classic. Show more
Texts and music on the theme of the Four Temperaments, with readings by Joe Dunlop and Joanna Tope. Including Wordsworth, Donne, Thomas and Chaucer, plus Holst, Britten, Bruckner. Show more
Norman Lebrecht traces the history of female Jewish singers. With contributions from eighth-generation Yiddish singer Myriam Fuks and Yemenite singer Achinoam Nini. Show more
By Federico Garcia Lorca. A meditation on fate, war, tradition, passion and repression, inspired by the true story of a fatal feud between two families in Almeria. Show more
In a performance given at City Halls in Glasgow, Ilan Volkov conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich's music for the silent film The New Babylon. Show more
Jonathan Swain's selection includes Palestrina's Missa Nigra sum and Canticum Canticorum performed by the Alamire Chamber Chorus directed by David Skinner. Show more
