Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Essential Classics
Monday - Sarah Walker, plus Rob Cowan with Philippa Gregory
2 hours
on BBC Radio 3
With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love Grieg Songs; Musical challenge; Proms Artist of the Week: flute player Emily Beynon, featured in Mozart's Flute Concerto No 1. Show more
With Sol Gabetta (cello), Bernard Chamayou (piano). Mendelssohn: Cello Sonata in D. Chopin: Cello Sonata in G minor; Grand duo concertant sur des themes de Robert le diable. Show more
Live from Cadogan Hall in London, a piano recital by Jeremy Denk. Scriabin: Piano Sonata No 9 (Black Mass). Bartok: Piano Sonata, Sz 80. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor. Show more
A Prom with the BBC SO conducted by Francois-Xavier Roth. Boulez: Figures - Doubles - Prismes. Ravel: Frontispice; Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Stravinsky: The Firebird. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents. With countertenor Andrew Watts singing music by Quilter, conductor David Hill on the new BBC carol competition and pianist Peter Donohoe playing live. Show more
Donald Macleod introduces a piano sonata containing some of Schubert's most sombre music to-date and, in contrast, his genial and ever-popular Octet. Show more
BBC Proms
2015
Prom 53
Part 1: Prom 53 (part 1): Bartok - The Miraculous Mandarin, Shostakovich - Orango
1 hour, 10 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, the Philharmonia Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen. Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin. Mozart: Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor (soloist: David Fray). Show more
Tom Service is joined by guests Marina Frolova-Walker and Gerard McBurney - who orchestrated the work's prologue - to discuss Shostakovich's unfinished opera Orango. Show more
BBC Proms
2015
Prom 53
Part 2: Prom 53 (part 2): Bartok - The Miraculous Mandarin, Shostakovich - Orango
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3
The Philharmonia Orchestra's Prom under Esa-Pekka Salonen concludes with a performance of part of Shostakovich's Orango, an unfinished opera whose manuscript surfaced only in 2004. Show more
From the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Georgia Mann introduces music from the Mark Pringle Trio as well as poetry by Nigerian-born poet Inua Ellams. Show more
Stephen Johnson explores the impact of Haydn's Symphony No 100 in 1790s London. He examines the lives of those first listeners to reveal what our modern ears might be missing. Show more
Jez Nelson presents a special live edition from the 2015 Edinburgh Festival, featuring musicians from Scotland and the north of England. Show more
Jonathan Swain's selection of music includes the Royal Philharmonic and Charles Dutoit performing works by Beethoven, Prokofiev, Saint-Saens, Sibelius and Elgar. Show more
