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
With Andrew McGregor. Building a Library: Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1; New Bach releases, including the St John Passion; Disc of the Week: Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro.
Music Matters
Olli Mustonen, Constant Lambert, Music Education, Politicians and the Arts
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Petroc Trelawny meets Finnish pianist, conductor and composer Olli Mustonen and reviews Stephen Lloyd's new biography of Constant Lambert with David Owen Norris and Zoe Anderson. Show more
In a concert given at St Agnes of Bohemia Convent, Prague, Phantasm with organist Daniel Hyde perform consort music by William Lawes, John Jenkins and Thomas Tomkins. Show more
Historian Lucy Worsley explores music and the wives of the Georgian kings, focusing on Duchess Sophia Dorothea of Brunswick and Luneburg. Show more
Matthew Sweet looks at the music of the Newman dynasty of film composers, founded by Alfred and including Thomas, Randy and David, whose score features in new release Tarzan. Show more
Alyn Shipton's selection of listeners' requests includes an unusual recording of Artie Shaw from the 1930s, swing from Ella Fitzgerald and music by cult Brooklyn band Snarky Puppy. Show more
Live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Bellini's final opera I Puritani, with Olga Peretyatko in her Met debut and Michele Mariotti conducting. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a celebration of composer Jonathan Harvey, who died in 2012: his complete Glasgow Trilogy, plus his most famous work, Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco. Show more
Geoffrey Smith pays homage to composer, pianist, lyricist and arranger Billy Strayhorn, who until his death in 1967 was Duke Ellington's 'musical right arm' and alter-ego. Show more
John Shea's selection includes the Vienna Philharmonic under Bernard Haitink performing music Haydn and Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie at the 2012 Proms. Show more