Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more

With Rob Cowan. Including Five Reasons to Love Brahms Late Piano Pieces; Musical challenge; Artist of the Week: conductor George Szell. With Sibelius's Symphony No 4. Show more

Donald Macleod explores how a new position confirmed Widor's status as one of France's pre-eminent musical figures. Show more

Baritone Benjamin Appl performs an all-Schubert song programme with pianist Joseph Middleton in a recital from Cowdray Hall, Aberdeen. Plus Louis Schwizgebel (piano) in Scarlatti. Show more

Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Smetana's tragic opera Dalibor in a performance given at the Barbican in London by a Czech cast and the BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra. Show more

Sean Rafferty with baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist James Baillieu, soprano Maria Cristina Kiehr, and students from the Royal Academy of Music in London. Show more

Donald Macleod explores how a new position confirmed Widor's status as one of France's pre-eminent musical figures. Show more

From City Halls, Glasgow, BBC SSO under Markus Stenz. Berio: Ritirata Notturna di Madrid di Luigi Boccherini. Mozart: Piano Concerto No 21. Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Nights Dream. Show more

Anne McElvoy presents. With a review of High Society at the Old Vic in London, writer Xinran discussing China's one-child policy and three historians' view of the general election. Show more

Playwright April de Angelis discusses Kafka's novel The Castle, arguing the case for the author as both humorist and feminist. Show more

Verity Sharp presents a varied selection of music. Show more

Jonathan Swain's selection includes a fortepiano recital of Mozart and Haydn given by Kristian Bezuidenhout. Show more