Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and suggestions for the annual musical advent calendar. Show more
With Sarah Walker. Including performances by Jussi Bjorling; Music in Time: Machaut: Quant en moy; Nordic composers: Kraus: Symphony in F. Show more
Donald Macleod describes Berwald's encounter with Mendelssohn and his new career in Berlin as a physiotherapist. Show more
The Danish String Quartet in a performance given in Perth Concert Hall. Haydn: String Quartet in C, Op 54 No 2. Nielsen: String Quartet No 3 in E flat, Op 14. Show more
The Lahti Symphony Orchestra perform Sibelius: The Bard; Symphony No 5. Plus works by Esa-Pekka Salonen, Norman, Norgard and Magnus Lindberg. Show more
Jenny Agutter and Andrew Buchan read texts inspired by the Virgin Mary, including Thomas Hardy, Rupert Brooke and Dorothy Parker, with music by Rautavaara, Bach and Nick Drake. Show more
New Generation Artists
Louis Schwizgebel, Kathryn Rudge, Lise Berthaud, Armida Quartet
1 hour, 13 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Clemency Burton-Hill celebrates the BBC New Generation Artists, including mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge singing Roger Quilter's Seven Elizabethan Lyrics. Show more
Recorded at the BBC Proms 2015, the San Francisco Symphony with music director Michael Tilson Thomas and pianist Jeremy Denk in music by Mahler, Schoenberg and Henry Cowell. Show more
Recorded at the BBC Proms 2015, the second of two concerts in which Alina Ibragimova performs all six of Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin. Show more
Per Rosenberg discusses the wooden churches of Scandinavia and the symbolic importance of the forest. Show more
Mara Carlyle presents a mix of alternative festive fare, including ice music from Terje Isungset, a Christmas song from John Jacob Niles and Edmund Finnis's Colour Field Painting. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Harding in a programme of Strauss waltzes and polkas. Show more