Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Essential Classics
Friday - Sarah Walker, plus Rob Cowan with Philippa Gregory
2 hours on BBC Radio 3
With Sarah Walker. Including 5 Reasons to Love Grieg Songs; Musical challenge; Proms Artist of the Week: flute player Emily Beynon, featured in Poulenc's Flute Sonata. Show more
Christine Brewer (soprano) and Roger Vignoles (piano) perform a varied selection of music at Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, from Schubert and Strauss lieder to the art songs of America. Show more
Music by Brahms: Barry Douglas (piano) plays the Scherzo, Op 4. Plus Elina Vahala (violin), Ruth Gibson (viola), Andres Diaz (cello) and Barry Douglas in Piano Quartet, Op 25. Show more
A Prom in which Ilan Volkov conducts the BBC SSO. Sibelius: Symphonies Nos 3 and 4; Violin Concerto in D minor (soloist: Julian Rachlin). Michael Finnissy: Janne. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents. Guests include composer Murray Gold, conductor Jeremy Holland-Smith, harpsichordist Steven Devine and director of Shakespeare's Globe Dominic Dromgoole. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on the final year of Schubert's life, when he staged a concert of his own music at Vienna's most prestigious concert venue and wrote some of his finest music. Show more
Chamber Orchestra of Europe under Bernard Haitink. Schubert: Overture in C, D591 (In the Italian Style). Mozart: Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K488 (soloist: Maria Joao Pires). Show more
A reading from Stefan Zweig's The World of Yesterday, about wasted opportunities at school and how one 'sniffed out' one's own cultural touchstones in turn-of-the-century Vienna. Show more
A Prom featuring the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under conductor Bernard Haitink concludes with a performance of Schubert's Symphony No 9 in C, D944 (Great). Show more
Anne McElvoy chairs a discussion about depictions of working class history in song, story and historical sources. The panel features Alison Light, David Almond and Eliza Carthy. Show more
Stephen Johnson examines the reactions of the first audiences in Paris in 1910 to Stravinsky's first ballet score, The Firebird. Show more
Live from the BBC's blue tent in Edinburgh. Max Reinhardt with star artists from the Festival and the fringe as well as the latest musical talent from BBC Introducing. Show more
Jonathan Swain's selection of music includes a performance of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder given in Warsaw. Show more