Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist and listener requests. Plus requests for works by neglected composers. Show more
With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: In 27 Pieces - The Hilary Hahn Encores, Artist of the Week: John Ogdon, the author Terry Waite and Schumann's Kreisleriana. Show more
Composer of the Week
Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996)
Episode 1: The Greatest Composer You've (Probably) Never Heard of
1 hour on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod on Mieczyslaw Weinberg's journey from Warsaw to Minsk, then to Tashkent, as he fled the Nazis. After he wrote his First Symphony, Shostakovich, and Moscow, beckoned. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall, London, pianist Imogen Cooper in music by Brahms and Clara and Robert Schumann. Show more
Including Schumann: 2 Poems. Dvorak: Mass in D. Loeffler: Les Veillees de l'Ukraine. Reich: Electric Counterpoint. Greenwood: Suite (There Will Be Blood). Gorecki: Symphony No 3. Show more
Sean Rafferty is joined by pianist and bandleader Jools Holland for some live boogie-woogie at the studio piano, plus there is live chamber music from the Sacconi Quartet. Show more
Composer of the Week
Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996)
Episode 1: The Greatest Composer You've (Probably) Never Heard of
1 hour on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod on Mieczyslaw Weinberg's journey from Warsaw to Minsk, then to Tashkent, as he fled the Nazis. After he wrote his First Symphony, Shostakovich, and Moscow, beckoned. Show more
From San Francisco Opera, John Shea presents a 2012 production of Verdi's Attila, a historic drama inspired by the mythic and barbarian King of the Huns. Show more
War correspondent Janine di Giovanni discusses the photograph taken by Robert Capa that made him famous, as well as the women who loved him. Show more
Jez Nelson presents avant-funk trio Medeski Martin and Wood performing at Ronnie Scott's as part of the 2013 London Jazz Festival. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents an organ recital given by Jordi Cabré, in the Basílica de Santa Maria de Mataró, Barcelona. Show more