Victoria Meakin presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Rob Cowan explores depictions of Egypt by composers including Verdi and Saint-Saens. Plus Vaughan Williams settings of folksongs and the ballet suite from Delibes's Coppelia. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is author Jill Paton Walsh. Her musical choices include Bizet, Copland, Britten, Mozart and Haydn. Show more
From Wigmore Hall in London, the Brentano String Quartet play Haydn's String Quartet, Op 50 No 4, and Britten's String Quartet No 3. Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Show more
Lucie Skeaping and harpsichordist Martin Perkins explore the music of 18th-century Birmingham. Includes John Pixell, Richard Mudge, Joseph Harris, Barnabas Gunn and Capel Bond. Show more
From Westminster Abbey. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch's guest is composer and viola player John Metcalfe. Plus a choir set up to offer singing opportunities to boy choristers when their cathedral days are over. Show more
Jessie Buckley and Julian Ovenden, both actors who sing themselves, with words and music on the theme of singing. Words from Flaubert to Mark Doty and a cornucopia of vocal music Show more
If brainwashing is a just an old Cold War myth, why does it still trouble our culture? Daniel Pick investigates. Show more
With Ian Skelly. Schutz: An den Wassern zu Babel; German Magnificat. Brahms: Violin Sonata No 2. Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde). Schumann: Piano Trio No 1. Show more
By Anton Chekhov. Drama about three sisters living in provincial Russia. While they dream of returning to their home city of Moscow, real life keeps getting in the way. Show more
Elin Manahan Thomas introduces Ensemble Clement Janequin playing chansons from 16th-century France by Compere, Sermisy, Janequin and Lassus at the 2015 Concentus Moraviae Festival. Show more
A recording of JCF Bach's Symphony in C, WI No 6, played by the New Bach Collegium Musicum of Leipzig conducted by Burkhard Glaetzner. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents performances of Zelenka's Te Deum and Missa Dei Filii given in Wroclaw Cathedral in Poland. Show more