Petroc Trelawny begins Radio 3's programmes from Glasgow as part of the BBC's cultural celebration of the 2014 Commonwealth Games. With guests, live music and listener requests. Show more
With Rob Cowan. Essential CD of the Week: Fasch: Quartets and Concertos, with Ensemble Marsyas; Brainteaser: Only Connect; Rob's Essential Choice: Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 6. Show more
Donald Macleod explains how, with his greatest success behind him, Cole Porter's subsequent triumphs were clouded by personal tragedies. Show more
Robin Tritschler (tenor) and Louis Schwizgebel (piano) in Schubert: Lieder selection. Apollon Musagete Quartet in Dvorak: String Quartet in C, Op 61. Show more
A Prom featuring the BBC Philharmonic under Juanjo Mena. Birtwistle: Night's Black Bird. Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (soloist: Alexandre Tharaud). Mahler: Symphony No 5. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents a special show from Glasgow, with live music from Breabach and pianist Gwilym Simcock as part of the BBC cultural celebration of the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Show more
Donald Macleod explains how, with his greatest success behind him, Cole Porter's subsequent triumphs were clouded by personal tragedies. Show more
Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins. Gurney: War Elegy. Sally Beamish: The Singing (James Crabb: accordion). Show more
Indira Varma reads Katherine Mansfield's modernist classic The Stranger, the story of a man on a harbourside, awaiting his wife's return from Europe. Show more
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Walton's Symphony No 1. Show more
Sally Beamish discusses her music with Andrew McGregor and introduces performances of her chamber works.
Writer David Almond discusses Caedmon, the earliest English poet whose name is known, said to be an illiterate herdsman who began to write it during a dream. Show more
From Glasgow, Lopa Kothari presents a concert of bands from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Plus the final part of Commonwealth Connections: music from Belize. Show more
A selection of music including Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata, featuring soloist Igor Levit. Show more
