Lunchtime Concert

A gem today at 2.00pm; the legendary Czech pianist Ivan Moravec, now in his seventies, in a concert given in October 2005 at the Wigmore Hall, London.

Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op 15
Debussy: Pour le piano
Chopin: 2 Nocturnes, Op 27; Ballade No 1 in G minor, Op 23

The Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long). Live from the Wigmore Hall, London. Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a concert of piano quartets by Brahms and Mahler, including the latter's Piano Quintet in A minor, written in 1876, when he was just 16 and studying at the Vienna Conseratory - although his first symphony was not completed for another eight years. Mahler: Piano Quartet in A minor. Brahms: Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor, Op 25. Renaud Capucon (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Gautier Capucon (cello), Nicholas Angelich (piano).

Saturday 15th November 2008. Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long). Live from the Wigmore Hall, London, Verity Sharp presents the Jerusalem Quartet and clarinettist Martin Frost in Schubert's Quartettsatz in C minor, D703, and Brahms's Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115.

Saturday 27th December 2008 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Another chance to hear a concert given by the Belcea Quartet earlier in the year at the Wigmore Hall in London. The programme contrasts two masterpieces of the quartet repertoire, the concentrated minature movements of Webern's Op 5 and Schubert's wide-ranging and tragic Death and the Maiden. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Webern: 5 Movements, Op 5. Schubert: String Quartet in D minor (Death and the Maiden).

Saturday 28th March 2009
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Presented by Verity Sharp. The Skampa Quartet mark 20 years performing together with a live recital from London's Wigmore Hall of Schubert's last quartet, written in 1826 at roughly the same time Beethoven was writing his late quartets. While some of Beethoven's quartets were performed in his lifetime, this work was not performed until Schubert had been dead for more than 20 years, showing perhaps the standing of each composer in Vienna at the time. Schubert: String Quartet in G, D887. Skampa Quartet.

Saturday 20th June 2009 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Live from Wigmore Hall in London, Fiona Talkington introduces an all-Russian programme given by cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Kirill Gerstein. Rachmaninov: Two pieces, Op 2. Julius Isserlis: Ballade for cello and piano. Pletnev: Sonata for cello and piano.

Saturday 4th July 2009 (starting tomorrow afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Introduced by Verity Sharp. Live from the Wigmore Hall in London, the Ysaye Quartet from France perform music by Haydn and Brahms. Haydn: String Quartet in E flat, Op 64 No 2. Brahms: String Quartet in B flat, Op 67. Ysaye Quartet.

Saturday 17th October 2009 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

In a concert from London's Wigmore Hall, Jennifer Pike is joined by pianist Martin Roscoe. She plays Schumann's First Sonata, Dvorak's enchanting Four Romantic Pieces, an elegant Praeludium and Allegro by Fritz Kreisler, and Ravel's Tzigane. Plus a short work by Jeremy Pike, called Processions.

Saturday 7th November 2009
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Fiona Talkington presents Christopher Maltman (baritone) and Graham Johnson (piano) live from Wigmore Hall, London. They perform Schubert's embattled song cycle based on the poems of Wilhelm Muller. Franz Schubert: Die schone Mullerin, D795.

Saturday 23rd January 2010
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Presented by Sean Rafferty. Celebrated Italian contralto Sara Mingardo presents a range of roles from Handel operas with the ensemble Accademia degli Astrusi under their director Federico Ferri. The programme includes arias from Radamisto, Orlando and Tolomeo as well as Martini's Sinfonia in D and a beautiful canata from Sara's fellow Venetian, Antonio Vivaldi. Handel: Sinfonia (Amadigi di Gaula). Aria: Cara sposa, amato bene (Rinaldo). Aria: Perfido!, di a quell'empio tiranno (Radamisto). Sinfonia - Andante (Orlando). Aria: Ombra cara di mia sposa (Radamisto). Sinfonia: atto 3 (Lotario). Arioso: Tiranni miei pensieri (Tolomeo). Aria: Se un solo e quel core (Tolomeo). Sinfonia atto 3 (Orlando). Recitativo accompagnato e Aria: In una mano fratel...Stille amare (Tolomeo). Martini: Sinfonia a 4 strumenti in re maggiore. Vivaldi: Cessate, omai cessate. Sara Mingardo (contralto), Members of Accademia degli Astrusi.

Saturday 6th February 2010
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

A live concert from London's Wigmore Hall, featuring young Russian pianist Yevgeny Sudbin, who has been hailed as one of the most important pianistic talents of our time. He performs a stylistically varied programme, featuring two of Haydn's elegant piano sonatas, Liszt's Harmonies du soir from the fiendishly difficult Transcendental Studies and Chopin's beautiful Ballade No 4 in F minor.

Saturday 13th March 2010 (starting tomorrow afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Live from the Wigmore Hall, London, Suzy Klein presents a concert in which mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly, accompanied by Eugene Asti perform a programme of English songs. With two of Michael Tippett's arrangements - or re-discoveries - of Henry Purcell songs and others by Peter Warlock, Frank Bridge and Benjamin Britten. Plus music from Bridge's pupil, Herbert Howells, and Ivor Gurney, reflecting the conflict of the First World War, as well as songs by Eugene Asti himself - all setting poetry by Emily Dickinson. Purcell, arr Tippett: Music for a while; If music be the food of love. Warlock: Sleep. Bridge: Mantle of Blue; Day after day; Speak to me my love. Eugene Asti: Three songs on texts by Emily Dickinson. Gurney: By a Bier-side. Howells: King David; Lost Love. Britten: A Charm (A Charm of Lullabies, Op 41; The Salley Gardens. Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Eugene Asti (piano).

Saturday 20th March 2010 (starting tomorrow afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Live from Wigmore Hall, London, the Zehetmair Quartet perform a rarely heard work by Bruckner and a Schumann quartet. Bruckner: String Quartet in C minor. Schumann: Quartet in A minor, Op 41 No 1.

Saturday 27th March 2010 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Live from Wigmore Hall, London. Sean Rafferty presents a concert featuring violinist Janine Jansen and pianist Itamar Golan. Their programme comprises Beethoven's lyrical final violin sonata and two folk-inspired works by Bartok. Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 5 in F, Op 24. Bartok: Violin Sonata No 2, Sz 76; Rhapsody No 1. Janine Jansen (violin), Itamar Golan (piano).

Saturday 17th April 2010 (starting tomorrow afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

From the Wigmore Hall, London, pianist Stephen Kovacevich, a noted interpreter of Schubert, performs the composer's penultimate piano sonata after playing a work by Toru Takemitsu from the 1950s. Takemitsu: Pause ininterrompue (Uninterrupted Rest). Schubert: Piano Sonata in A, D959.

Saturday 22nd May 2010 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Presented by Fiona Talkington. Live from the Wigmore Hall, London, the Berlin-based Artemis Quartet perform two Beethoven quartets - the passionate Quartetto alla serioso and one of the Razumovsky quartets, dedicated to the Russian ambassador in Vienna, and hinting at a Russian musical inspiration. Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor, Op 95 (Serioso); String Quartet in C, Op 59 No 3 (Razumovsky). Artemis Quartet.

Saturday 12th June 2010 (starting tomorrow afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Presented by Sean Rafferty. Live from the Wigmore Hall, London, celebrated pianist Steven Osborne performs a concert featuring three works by Beethoven, as well as Rachmaninov's Variations on Corelli's own version of the Folia theme. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 25 in G, Op 79; Fantasie, Op 77; 11 Bagatelles, Op 119. Rachmaninov: Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op 42. Steven Osborne (piano).

Saturday 12th June 2010 (starting in 1 day)
Time: 20:15 to 22:00 (1 hour and 45 minutes long)

Edinburgh International Festival 2009.

The multi award-winning Emerson String Quartet perform two Mendelssohn Quartets - the earliest and the final of his oeuvre, for which the ensemble have been widely celebrated. This is contrasted with Beethoven's String Quartet No 10, reminiscent in some respects of the Fifth Symphony, which was written around the same time. Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E flat. Beethoven: String Quartet in E flat (The Harp). Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F minor. Emerson String Quartet.

Saturday 6th November 2010 (starting tomorrow afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Live from the Wigmore Hall, London, Louise Fryer presents the debut recital at the venue from Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili, a current member of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme. The programme includes Schumann's Fantasy in C, Op 17, written in 1836 to help raise money for a public monument to Beethoven; Liszt's First Mephisto Waltz and three movements from Petrushka, which Artur Rubinstein commissioned from Stravinsky shortly after the end of the First World War. Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op 17. Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No 1. Stravinsky: Three movements from Petrushka. Khatia Buniatishvili (piano).

Saturday 27th November 2010 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Presented by Fioan Talkington, live from the Wigmore Hall in London. The Takacs Quartet perform Schubert's Death and the Maiden Quartet after the song of that name upon which the composer based the second movement. The ensemble also gives the UK premiere of a piece by American composer Daniel Kellogg, which takes the first piece quartet as a reference point. Daniel Kellogg: Soft Sleep Shall Contain You: A Meditation on Schubert's Death and the Maiden. Schubert: String Quartet in D minor, D801 (Death and the Maiden). Takacs Quartet.

Saturday 11th December 2010 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Live from the Wigmore Hall, London, Suzy Klein introduces famed tenor Mark Padmore performing music by Schumann and Lachner. Including the song cycle Liederkreis, songs originally intended for the composer's celebrated cycle of settings by Heine - Dichterliebe - as well as other settings of Heine from Franz Paul Lachner's first Sangerfahrt, marking 120 years since Lachner's death. Schumann: Four Songs originally for Dichterliebe: Dein Angesicht; Lehn deine Wang'; Es leuchtet meine Liebe; Mein Wagen rollet langsam. Lachner: Heine Lieder: Im Mai; Die Meerfrau; Das Fischermadchen; Ein Traumbild; Die Einsame Thrane. Schumann: Liederkreis. Mark Padmore (tenor), Kristian Bezuidenhout (piano).

Saturday 5th February 2011 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

In a live concert from the Wigmore Hall, London, soprano Elizabeth Watts and pianist Roger Vignoles perform a programme of English music, including songs by Henry Purcell, and by one of Purcell's greatest advocates - Benjamin Britten. Complementing these are a set of Elizabethan songs by Ivor Gurney - a poet and composer who survived the trenches in the First World War. Britten: On This Island, Op 11; Let the florid music praise!; Now the leaves are falling fast; Seascape; Nocturne; As it is, plenty! Purcell: Music for a while; Not all my torments; Sweeter than roses; T'was within a furlong of Edinburgh town. Gurney: Five Elizabethan Songs - Orpheus with his lute; Tears; Under the Greenwood tree; Sleep; Spring. Trad, arr Britten: Oft in the stilly night; The bonny Earl o'Moray; O waly, waly; Sweet Polly Oliver. Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano).

Saturday 11th June 2011 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Fiona Talkington presents a recital by Angela Hewitt of keyboard works by Bach and Chopin, direct from Wigmore Hall, London. Bach: French Suites: No 2 in C minor; No 3 in B minor. Chopin: Nocturne in A flat, Op 32 No 2; Waltz in G flat, Op 70 No 1; Mazurka in D, Op 33 No 2; Mazurka in C, Op 67 No 3; Prelude in A, Op 28 No 7; Waltz in C sharp minor, Op 64 No 2; Grande valse brillante in E flat, Op 18.

Saturday 9th July 2011 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Catherine Bott presents Imogen Cooper in a live piano recital from the Wigmore Hall, London. The concert features four mini-masterpieces by Debussy, one of Beethoven's darker piano sonatas and two of Chopin's finest works. Debussy: Brouillards; La puerta del vino; La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune; Les tierces alternees (Preludes, Book 2). Beethoven: Piano Sonata in D minor, Op 31 No 2. Chopin: Nocturne in D flat, Op 27 No 2; Ballade in F minor, Op 52.

Saturday 12th November 2011 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Live from the Wigmore Hall, London, Suzy Klein presents a recital in which the Vienna Piano Trio perform a late work by Haydn, the founding father of the piano trio, Schubert's Notturno in E flat, and Shostakovich's Piano Trio No 2 in E minor, dedicated to the memory of his close friend, Ivan Sollertinsky. Haydn: Piano Trio in E flat, H XV 29. Schubert: Notturno in E flat, D897. Shostakovich: Piano Trio No 2 in E minor, Op 67. Vienna Piano Trio.

Saturday 19th November 2011 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Live from London's Wigmore Hall, the Emerson Quartet perform a Bach fugue arranged by Mozart, Mozart's Adagio and Fugue, K546, and Beethoven's Quartet in C sharp minor, Op. 131.

Saturday 10th March 2012 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Live from the Wigmore Hall in London, Louise Fryer presents a recital in which Norwegian cellist Truls Mork is joined by young Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili to perform one of Beethoven's two late cello sonatas, plus Rachmaninov's one and only sonata for the combination, a work of typically rich romantic melody. Presented by Fiona Talkington. Beethoven: Cello Sonata in C, Op 102 No 1. Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19. Truls Mork (cello), Khatia Buniatishvili (piano).

Saturday 24th March 2012 (starting in 5 hours and 24 minutes)
Time: 13:00 to 14:10 (1 hour and 10 minutes long)

Continuing Radio 3's celebration of the life and music of Schubert, Louise Fryer presents a live concert from Holkham Hall in Norfolk. The German-based Signum Quartet - current Radio 3 New Generation Artists - performs two of Schubert's best-known works for string quartet: the short movement known as his Quartettsatz and his last contribution to the genre - the Death and the Maiden Quartet, written in 1824. Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor, D703; String Quartet No 14 in D minor, D810 (Death and the Maiden). Signum Quartet.

Live from the Wigmore Hall in London, Sean Rafferty presents a recital in which Jean-Efflam Bavouzet plays works by two of the most influential composers for the piano: Liszt and Debussy. Two sides of Liszt featuring, with the solemn Invocation in Harmonies Poetiques et Religieuses, and the virtuosic Grosses Konzertsolo, as well as Debussy's Images, with its evocative piano textures. Liszt: Invocation (Harmonies Poetiques et Religieuses) (first version). Debussy: Images oubliees; Images (Book 1); L'isle joyeuse. Liszt: Grosses Konzertsolo. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano).

Saturday, June 9th, 2012 on
BBC Radio Three from 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Live from the Wigmore Hall in London, Catherine Bott introduces a recital by Canadian pianist Louis Lortie, who plays Traced Overhead by contemporary British composer Thomas Ades, and Schubert's Sonata in B flat, considered to be his last great work in the genre. Ades: Traced Overhead. Schubert: Sonata in B flat, D960. Louis Lortie (piano).

Saturday 7th July 2012 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Live from the Wigmore Hall in London, Fiona Talkington presents a recital in which piano duo Francois-Frederic Guy and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet perform arrangements of two great ballet scores from the 1910s. Debussy: Jeux. Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring. Francois-Frederic Guy, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (pianos).

Saturday 14th July 2012 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Live from Wigmore Hall in London, the Pavel Haas Quartet perform two highly personal and autobiographical works by Czech composers: Janacek's Second Quartet (Intimate Letters) reflects on his passionate but one-sided relationship with a younger woman; and Smetana's First Quartet (From My Life) details the emotional trauma of encroaching deafness. Presented by Fiona Talkington. Janacek: String Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters). Smetana: String Quartet No 1 in E minor (From My Life). Both Pavel Haas Quartet.

Saturday 5th January 2013 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

In part of a concert given at the 2011 Bath International MusicFest, Alina Ibragimova performs solo violin partitas by Bach. Bach: Partita No 2 in D minor, BWV1004; Partita No 3 in E, BWV1006. Alina Ibragimova (violin).

Monday 6th May 2013
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Live at Wigmore Hall, the Michelangelo Quartet perform Beethoven's Quartet in B flat, Op 130 with the Grosse Fuge finale. Presented by Catherine Bott. Incl 1.00 News.

Saturday 18th May 2013 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Live from the Wigmore Hall in London, Suzy Klein presents a recital in which cellist Natalie Clein and pianist Alasdair Beatson perform works by Britten and Beethoven. Beethoven: Cello Sonata No 5 in D, Op 102. Britten: Cello Suite No 3, Op 87; Cello Sonata No 4 in C, Op 102. Natalie Clein (cello), Alasdair Beatson (piano).

Saturday 15th June 2013 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Live from the Wigmore Hall in London, Sarah Walker presents the Brodsky Quartet performing a programme of music by Beethoven and Britten. With Beethoven's Quartet, Op 95, which combines the lyricism of the middle period quartets with the forward-thinking qualities of the late quartets, and Britten's Second Quartet, which pays homage to Britten. Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor, Op 95 (Serioso). Britten: String Quartet No 2 in C, Op 36. Brodsky Quartet.

Saturday 22nd June 2013 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

Live from the Wigmore Hall, Fiona Talkington presents a recital in which features pianist Benjamin Grosvenor performs a programme of music by Bach, Beethoven, Skryabin and Schulz-Evler. Bach/Siloti: Prelude in E minor, BWV555. Bach/Saint-Saens: Largo (Violin Sonata No 3, BWV1005); Sinfonia (Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV29). Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 4 in E flat, Op 7. Skryabin: Valse in A flat, Op 38. Schulz-Evler: Arabesques on The Blue Danube Waltz. Benjamin Grosvenor (piano).

Saturday 21st September 2013 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

In a live concert from the Wigmore Hall in London, pianist Christian Blackshaw plays Schubert's compact, intense Sonata in A minor, D784 and Schumann's expansive and Fantasie in C, Op 17. Schubert: Piano Sonata in A minor, D784. Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op 17. Christian Blackshaw (piano).

Sunday 6th October 2013
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

A concert given as part of the 2009 City of London Festival in the church of St Anne and St Agnes. Jennifer Pike (violin), Andreas Brantelid (cello), Shai Wosner (piano). Tchaikovsky: Trio in A minor, Op 50 (In Memory of a Great Artist).

Sunday 8th December 2013
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

A concert given by the Pavel Haas Quartet at St Giles Cripplegate as part of the 2009 City of London Festival. Prokofiev: Sonata for two violins. Haydn: String Quartet in D minor, Op 42. Prokofiev: String Quartet No 2. Pavel Haas Quartet.

Saturday 14th December 2013 (starting in 1 day)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Live from the Wigmore Hall in London, Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces a recital featuring clarinettist and Radio 3 New Generation Artist Mark Simpson performing with pianist Richard Uttley. The programme starts with Howells's last major chamber work, the Sonata in A, followed by Three Broken Love Songs, written in 2006 by London-based composer Gavin Higgins. The concert concludes with a great masterpiece of the clarinet repertoire by Brahms. Howells: Clarinet Sonata in A. Gavin Higgins: Three Broken Love Songs. Brahms: Sonata in F minor, Op 120 No 1. Mark Simpson (clarinet), Richard Uttley (piano). Incl 1.00 News.

Saturday 4th January 2014
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Elias Quartet.

5. Last in a series of five programmes featuring performances given by the Elias Quartet on a UK-wide Beethoven quartet tour. Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor, Op 95; String Quartet in F, Op 59 No 1 (Razumovsky).

Saturday 11th January 2014
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Live from the Wigmore Hall in London, Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces a concert featuring violinist James Ehnes. Bach: Partita No 3 in E, BWV1006; Partita No 2 in D minor, BWV1004.

Saturday 22nd February 2014 (starting in 28 minutes)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Live from Wigmore Hall, London, a solo recital in which Angela Hewitt performs music by Haydn, Beethoven and Bach. Haydn: Andante with Variations in F minor, H XVII 6. Beethoven: Piano Sonata in A, Op 2 No 2. Bach: Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV903. Angela Hewitt (piano).

Saturday 8th March 2014 (starting in 5 hours and 5 minutes)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Live from the Wigmore Hall in London, a recital in which cellist and Radio 3 New Generation Artist cellist Leonard Elschenbroich is joined by pianist Alexei Grynyuk. Debussy: Cello Sonata in D minor. Mark Simpson: Night Music. Prokofiev: Cello Sonata in C, Op 119. Leonard Elschenbroich (cello), Alexei Grynyuk (piano).

Sunday 9th March 2014
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

The Vienna Piano Trio Performs at Lso St Luke's in London.

Schubert: Trio movement in B flat, D28; Piano Quintet in A, D667 (Trout). Vienna Piano Trio: Bogdan Bozovic (violin), Matthias Gredler (cello), Stefan Mendl (piano), Rachel Roberts (viola), Chi-Chi Nwanoku (double bass).

Thursday 3rd April 2014 (starting in 5 hours and 36 minutes)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

The Legacy of Haydn.

3. Third of four programmes paying homage to Haydn and his musical legacy, featuring the Apollon Musagete Quartet performing at Perth Concert Hall. With the Quartet in D from Haydn's later set alongside Beethoven's second Rasumovsky'Quartet in E minor, which is said to have shocked audiences and players alike at its first performance. Haydn: Quartet in D, Op 71 No 2. Beethoven: Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2 (Rasumovsky). Apollon Musagete Quartet.

Saturday 5th April 2014
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

A concert of early music given at Gottingen International Festival, featuring a performance by violinist Rachel Podger and harpsichordist Marcin Swiatkiewicz. Fontana: Sonata No 2 in D. Frescobaldi: Toccata prima in G minor. Uccellini: Sonata overo Toccata quinta, detta La Laura. Marini: Sonata quarta per sonar con due corde. Bertali: Ciaccona in C. Handel: Suite No 3 in D minor, HWV428; Sonata in G minor, HWV364. Rachel Podger (violin), Marcin Swiatkiewicz (harpsichord).

Friday 11th April 2014
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Ryedale Festival 2013.

Katie Derham presents the last of four programmes from the Ryedale Festival in North Yorkshire features performances from Romanian pianist Alexandra Silocea, the Szymanowski Quartet and cellist Steven Isserlis with pianist Sam Haywood. Hahn: Deux airs Irlandais. Steven Isserlis (cello), Sam Haywood (piano). Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 21 in C, Op 53 (Waldstein). Alexandra Silocea (piano). Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata, D821. Steven Isserlis (cello), Sam Haywood (piano). Myroslav Skoryk: Melody. Szymanowski Quartet.

Saturday 19th April 2014 (starting in 5 hours and 36 minutes)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

In a concert given at the Pau Casals Hall in Barcelona, Le Concert des Nations and Jordi Savall perform works by Michael Praetorius, Lully and Purcell. Praetorius: Dances (Terpsichore). Lully: Orchestral Suite (Alceste). Purcell: Suite (The Fairy Queen) (after Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream).

Friday 9th May 2014
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Manchester Chamber Concerts.

4. The last of four programmes from the Royal Northern College of Music as part of the Manchester Chamber Concerts Society season, curated by Kathryn Stott. Shostakovich: Viola Sonata, Op 147. Isabelle van Keulen (viola), Kathryn Stott (piano). Brahms: String Quartet in C minor, Op 51 No 1. The Pacifica Quartet.

Sunday 25th May 2014 (starting in 5 hours and 40 minutes)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Presented by Sean Rafferty, live from the Wigmore Hall in London, Dutch fortepianist Ronald Brautigam performs sonatas by the great triumvirate of Classical-period masters: Mozart's Sonata in G K283, Beethoven's Sonata in C minor, Op 13 (Pathetique) and Haydn's Sonata in E flat, HobXVI:52.

Sunday 15th June 2014
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Live from Wigmore Hall, London, Sarah Walker presents pianist Pascal Roge in an all-French programme. With the nostalgic Suite Bergamasque by Debussy and Sonatine by Ravel, Satie's gentle and haunting Gnossienne No 3 and Poulenc's suite inspired by memories of games with his friends on summer nights, Les Soirees de Nazelles. Debussy: Suite Bergamasque. Ravel: Sonatine. Satie: Gnossienne No 3. Poulenc: Les Soirees de Nazelles. Pascal Roge (piano).

Saturday 21st June 2014
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Highlights of a concert of Italian music given by Les Arts Florissants at the 2013 Haut Jura Festival at Saint-Claude in the Jura mountains of central eastern France, over the border from Lake Geneva in Switzerland. Associate music director Paul Agnew conducts a programme centring on Monteverdi: madrigals from the fifth of the eight books of madrigals he published, as well as music by his Italian contemporaries Luca Marenzio and Emilio de' Cavalieri.

Saturday 12th July 2014 (starting in 5 hours and 18 minutes)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

A concert given by the Maurice Steger Trio at the Frick Collection in New York as part of the venue's 75th anniversary season in 2013. The performance, given at the famous art gallery near Manhattan's Central Park, features Italian Baroque music for recorder, cello and harpsichord, including Uccellini, Corelli, Falconieri and Alessandro Scarlatti.

Saturday 2nd August 2014
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

In a concert given in Antwerp in 2013, Welsh soprano Elin Manahan Thomas and the ensemble Fretwork with lute player Elizabeth Kenny perform songs and instrumental works by Dowland. Including Dowland's signature song Flow My Tears and several of its instrumental siblings, the Lachrymae pavans. Part 1: Flow my tears; Lachrimae antiquae; Lachrimae antiquae novae; The King of Denmark, his Galliard; Can she excuse my wrongs - The Earle of Essex, his Galliard. Part 2: Lachrimae gementes; My thoughts are winged with hopes; Sorrow, stay; Sir John Langton's Pavan; Come again; In darkness let me dwell; Time stands still. Part 3: If my complaints; Lachrimae amantis; I saw my lady wee; Mr Henry Noell his Galliard; Shall I strive with words.

Saturday 13th September 2014
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

In a concert given at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw last December, Mike Fentross directs Dutch ensemble La Sfera Armoniosa in chamber music and cantatas by Vivaldi.

Sunday 21st September 2014
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Live from the Wigmore Hall in London, Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces a recital by Canadian virtuoso pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin. Including Schubert's four poetic D935 Impromptus and five Chopin Studies in the difficult but imaginative reworkings for left hand alone by Leopold Godowsky. Schubert: 4 Impromptus, D935. Godowsky compl Hamelin: Study No 44A (after Chopin's Nouvelle Etude No 1). Godowsky: Studies for left hand after Chopin's Etudes Nos 2, 13, 44 and 22. Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano).

Sunday 5th October 2014
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Live from the Wigmore Hall in London, a fortepiano recital from Harvard professor, Mozart scholar and keyboard expert Robert Levin. Mozart: Piano Sonata in F, K533/494. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 27 in E minor, Op 90. Mozart: Piano Sonata in D, K576.

Tuesday 14th October 2014
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Clandeboye Festival 2014. Episode 1.

1. John Toal introduces the first of four recitals given at the Clandeboye Estate outside Bangor in County Down. Pianist Barry Douglas performs Brahms's large-scale Sonata No 1 and Schubert's vivid and virtuosic Wanderer Fantasy. Brahms: Sonata No 1 in C, Op 1. Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy, Op 15.

Thursday 16th October 2014
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Clandeboye Festival 2014. Episode 3.

3. John Toal introduces the third of four recitals given at the Clandeboye Estate outside Bangor in Country Down. Pianist Barry Douglas performs Brahms's Intermezzi, Op 117, three late, intimate works which display the composer's more reflective side. Douglas is then joined by violinist Elina Vahala in a showpiece by Beethoven: his Violin Sonata in A. Brahms: Three Intermezzi, Op 117. Barry Douglas (piano). Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A, Op 47 (Kreutzer). Elina Vahala (violin) Barry Douglas (piano).

Monday 27th October 2014
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Live from London's Wigmore Hall, Russian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja performs a programme of music by Beethoven and Berg. With Beethoven's improvisatory Fantasia in G minor and his innovative Tempest Sonata, which is contrasted with Berg's first and only piano sonata. Beethoven: Fantasia in G minor, Op 77. Berg: Piano Sonata, Op 1. Beethoven: Piano Sonata in D minor, Op 31 No 2 (The Tempest).

Thursday 30th October 2014 (starting in 5 hours and 57 minutes)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Lammermuir Festival 2014. Episode 3.

3. Festival artists-in-residence Francois Leleux and the Heath Quartet feature in music by Knussen, Beethoven and Bartok. Knussen: Cantata for oboe and string trio. Francois Leleux (oboe), Lesley Hatfield (violin), Scott Dickinson (viola), William Conway (cello). Beethoven: String Quartet, Op 95. Bartok: String Quartet No 3. Heath Quartet.

Sunday 2nd November 2014
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Live from London's Wigmore Hall, Russian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja performs a programme of music by Beethoven and Berg. With Beethoven's improvisatory Fantasia in G minor and his innovative Tempest Sonata, which is contrasted with Berg's first and only piano sonata. Beethoven: Fantasia in G minor, Op 77. Berg: Piano Sonata, Op 1. Beethoven: Piano Sonata in D minor, Op 31 No 2 (The Tempest).

Monday 10th November 2014 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Live from Wigmore Hall in London, a piano recital by Garrick Ohlsson. Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E, Op 109. Chopin: Mazurka in A minor, Op 7 No 2; Piano Sonata in B minor, Op 58.

Tuesday 11th November 2014 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Nash Ensemble - At Fives and Sixes. Episode 1.

1. Katie Derham presents the first of four programmes celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Nash Ensemble, featuring string quintets and sextets performed LSO St Luke's in London. With a programme of Russian chamber music, including Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence, a sextet he worked from a theme composed during a trip to Florence and which he then dedicated to the St Petersburg Chamber Music Society after being made an honorary member. Borodin: String Sextet in D minor. Stravinsky: Three Pieces for String Quartet. Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence. Nash Ensemble.

Friday 14th November 2014
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Nash Ensemble - At Fives and Sixes. Episode 4.

4. Katie Derham presents the last of four programmes celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Nash Ensemble, featuring string quintets and sextets performed LSO St Luke's in London. Bruch: String Quintet in E flat. Beethoven: String Quintet in C, Op 29. Nash Ensemble.

Tuesday 2nd December 2014 (starting in 5 hours and 41 minutes)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Martha Argerich Project 2014. Episode 1.

1. The first of four programmes of performances from Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich's Lugano-based festival features piano music for two, four and eight hands, by Mozart, Borodin and Schumann. Mozart: Andante and Variations in G, K501. Martha Argerich, Zhaniya Aubakirova (piano duet). Schumann: Fantasy in C, Op 17. Gabriela Montero (piano). Borodin: Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor). Cristina Marton, Gulzhan Uzenbayeva (piano duet), Zhibek Kozhakhmetova, Eduardo Hubert (piano duet).

Tuesday 9th December 2014
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Bath Mozartfest 2014. Episode 1.

1. The first of four programmes of music from the Bath Mozartfest, performed at the city's Guildhall and Assembly Rooms. Including chamber music and songs by Mozart, Mussorgsky and Ned Rorem. Mozart: Horn Quintet in E flat, K407. Nash Ensemble. Rorem: A Night Case. Mussorgsky: The Field Marshal. Myrthen Ensemble. Mozart: Piano Concerto No 12 in A, K414. Vertavo Quartet, Paul Lewis (piano).

Saturday 13th December 2014
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Veteran vocal ensemble Anonymous 4 sing medieval and traditional Christmas songs in praise of the Virgin Mary at Corpus Christi Church in New York City. Including music from England, France, Spain and the United States.

Monday 29th December 2014
Time: 13:00 to 14:10 (1 hour and 10 minutes long)

Elias Quartet Beethoven Cycle. Episode 1.

1. The first of five programmes featuring part of the Elias Quartet's complete concert cycle of the Beethoven quartets, with a concert given in May at All Saints Church, Brighton as part of the 2014 Brighton Festival. Beethoven: String Quartet in F, Op 18 No 1; String Quintet in C, Op 29. Elias Quartet, Malin Broman (viola).

Monday 5th January 2015
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Live from the Wigmore Hall in London, American cellist Alisa Weilerstein plays two great works of the solo cello repertoire: Bach's Fifth Suite in C minor and Kodaly's Sonata, Op 8. Bach: Suite in C minor, BWV1011. Kodaly: Sonata, Op 8. Alisa Weilerstein (cello).

Thursday 8th January 2015
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Piano Festivals in Perth and Glasgow. Episode 3.

3. From the 2014 Piano Festival in Glasgow, the Gould Piano Trio play an old favourite, Beethoven's Archduke trio, while pianist Alasdair Beatson presents the beautiful Darknesse Visible by Thomas Ades - an explosion of John Dowland's seventeenth-century lute song using the full range of the instrument. Ades: Darknesse Visible. Alasdair Beatson (piano). Beethoven: Piano Trio in B flat, Op 97 (Archduke). Gould Piano Trio.

Tuesday 20th January 2015
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Liverpool Chamber Music Series. Episode 1.

1. First of four programmes in a series of concerts given at the 2014 Liverpool Philharmonic Chamber Music Series at St George's Hall. Haydn: String Quartet in G minor, Op 20 No 3. Emerson Quartet. Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Handel, Op 24. Simon Trpceski (piano).

Friday 23rd January 2015 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Liverpool Chamber Music Series. Episode 4.

4. Last of four programmes in a series of concerts given at the 2014 Liverpool Philharmonic Chamber Music Series at St George's Hall. Poulenc: Morceaux. Simon Trpceski (piano). Shostakovich: String Quartet No 15 in E flat minor, Op 144. Emerson Quartet.

Wednesday 4th February 2015
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Turning Points. Episode 2.

2. The second in a series of programmes focusing on significant turning points in musical history celebrates the arrival of Romanticism and self-discovery. The performance was given at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor, D703. Beethoven: String Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2. Mendelssohn: Capriccio in E minor (Four Pieces, Op 81). Heath Quartet.

Friday 6th February 2015
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Turning Points. Episode 4.

4. The last in a series of programmes focusing on significant turning points in musical history explores the twilight of tonality. With Strauss's richly melodic Capriccio for string sextet paired with more complex counterpoint in the septet version of his Metamorphosen study for strings. Plus an early tonal work from Anton Webern: his 1905 slow movement for string quartet - Langsamer Satz. Strauss: Prelude (Capriccio); Metamorphosen for string septet. Webern: Langsamer Satz for string quartet. Scottish Ensemble members: Jonathan Morton (violin), Cheryl Crockett (violin), Catherine Marwood (viola), Andrew Berridge (viola), Alison Lawrance (cello), Naomi Pavri (cello), Diane Clark (double bass).

Saturday 7th February 2015
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Paul van Nevel directs the Huelgas Ensemble in 15th-century English polyphony from the Eton Choirbook in a performance given at the 2014 International Sacred Music Festival in Fribourg, Switzerland. Their programme features a seven-voice Salve Regina, the only known work by John Sutton - its first ever UK broadcast - and the Stabat Mater for six voices by the leading composer in the Eton Choirbook, John Browne.

Sunday 8th February 2015
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Live from the Wigmore Hall in London, Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a concert in which Scottish pianist Steven Osborne performs a programme of Russian music which takes the visual arts as its theme. Including a selection from Rachmaninov's Etudes-tableaux - picture pieces - although not based on any specific works of art. Plus Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, based on paintings and drawings by the Russian architect and artist Viktor Hartmann, including the famous Great Gate of Kiev. Rachmaninov: Etudes-tableaux (excerpts). Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition. Steven Osborne (piano).

Wednesday 4th March 2015
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Cellist Natalie Clein, violinist Henning Kraggerud and viola player Krzysztof Chorzelski play Bach's Goldberg Variations in an unusual arrangement for string trio. Bach arr Sitkovetsky: Goldberg Variations.

Tuesday 24th March 2015 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Haydn Plus One. Episode 1.

1. The first of four programmes of music by Haydn linked to other composers, featuring performances given at LSO St Luke's in London. Haydn: String Quartet in B minor, Op 64 No 2. Bartok: String Quartet No 5. Meta4.

Saturday 11th April 2015 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

The French Air - The Art of Intimacy.

Les Arts Florissants and director William Christie, among the world's leading interpreters of French Baroque music, perform a programme of music by Campra, Couperin, Clerambault and others at the 2014 Classical Nights in Girona Festival.

Sunday 12th April 2015
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Live from Wigmore Hall, London, a concert in which Finnish quartet Meta4 performs music by Haydn and Schumann. With a work by the former coming from a set of six published in 1772, which with its conversational dialogues between instruments represented a major milestone in the maturing of a still-young genre. Plus one of Schumann's three quartets, all written in 1842, and all showing a more lyrical and Romantic approach to the form. Haydn: String Quartet in C, Op 20 No 2. Schumann: String Quartet in A minor, Op 41 No 1. Meta4.

Monday 27th April 2015 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Live from Wigmore Hall in London, Sara Mohr-Pietsh presents a recital in which viola player Antoine Tamestit performs two solo suite by Bach and new commission from Olga Neuwirth. Bach: Cello Suite No 1 in G, BWV1007. Neuwirth: Weariness heals wounds. Bach: Cello Suite No 3 in C, BWV1009. Antoine Tamestit (viola).

Monday 25th May 2015
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Live from Wigmore Hall in London, Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a concert in which French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet performs music by Beethoven, Boulez and Debussy. With Beethoven's two-movement Piano Sonata No 24 as well as three Gallic masterworks, including Boulez's gritty Piano Sonata No 1 and a selection of Maurice Ohana's Debussy-inspired Etudes d'interpretation. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 24 in F sharp, Op 78 (A Therese). Boulez: Piano Sonata No 1
. Maurice Ohana: Mouvements paralleles; Quintes; Main gauche seule (12 Etudes d'interpretation). Debussy: Pour les tierces; Pour les sixtes; Pour les octaves (Etudes - Book 1). Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano).

Tuesday 26th May 2015
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Hay Festival 2015. Episode 1.

1. Live from St Mary's Church, Hay-on-Wye, Clemency Burton-Hill presents the first of four concerts given as part of the 2015 Hay Festival. Baroque violinist Rachel Podger performs music by Tartini, Biber, Roman and Matteis. Tartini: Violin Sonata No 13 in B minor, B h1. Roman: Assaggio, BeRI 314. Matteis: Other Ayrs, Preludes, Allmands, Sarabands, Courantes, Gigues, Divisions and Double Compositions etc. Biber: Passacaglia. Tartini: Violin Sonata in A minor, B a3. Rachel Podger (violin).

Monday 1st June 2015
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Live from Wigmore Hall in London, Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a concert featuring violinist Tasmin Little and pianist Martin Roscoe. They perform works from the height of the Romantic period in the late 19th century. After music by two friends - Czech composer Dvorak and his German colleague Brahms - the concert culminates with arguably one of the greatest of all violin sonatas, by Franck. Brahms: Scherzo (FAE Sonata). Dvorak: Four Romantic Pieces, Op 75. Franck: Violin Sonata in A. Tasmin Little (violin), Martin Roscoe (piano).

Sunday 7th June 2015 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Live from Wigmore Hall in London, Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a concert featuring violinist Tasmin Little and pianist Martin Roscoe. They perform works from the height of the Romantic period in the late 19th century. After music by two friends - Czech composer Dvorak and his German colleague Brahms - the concert culminates with arguably one of the greatest of all violin sonatas, by Franck. Brahms: Scherzo (FAE Sonata). Dvorak: Four Romantic Pieces, Op 75. Franck: Violin Sonata in A. Tasmin Little (violin), Martin Roscoe (piano).

Tuesday 7th July 2015 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Lso International Violin Festival.

1. In the first of four programmes featuring concerts given in Jerwood Hall at LSO St Luke's, London, Christian Tetzlaff plays two intricate, virtuosic violin pieces by Bach. Bach: Partita in D minor, BWV1004; Sonata No 3 in C, BWV1005. Christian Tetzlaff (violin).
(Episode 1)

Wednesday 8th July 2015
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Lso International Violin Festival.

2. In a concert given in Jerwood Hall at LSO St Luke's, London, violinist James Ehnes is joined by pianist Steven Osborne to perform the finals sonatas of Beethoven and Brahms: the former's delicate and serene Tenth and the latter's passionate and romantic Third. Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 10 in G, Op 96. Brahms: Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor, Op 108. James Ehnes (violin), Steven Osborne (piano).
(Episode 2)