Endless pleasure, endless love - a passionate affair with Jupiter ends badly in Handel's Semele, premiered at Covent Garden👇1744. The Handel revival has brought us very different recordings, which ones deserve to accompany you where e'er you walk? Find out from 3pm @BBCRadio3
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Plus highlights from these new things and more, with guest reviewer Marina @frolovawalker ...join us live from 2pm @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds
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From moths fluttering at night to bells in the valley, Ravel's piano suite Miroirs is full of atmosphere and evocative colour...but which pianists find Ravel's magic on record? Hear them for yourself in Building a Library from 3pm. New things too 👇from 2pm @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds
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You could make a case that Vivaldi's 28 Cello Concertos effectively invented the genre...magical pieces, and they're the subject of Building a Library this afternoon. Recordings compared from 3pm. And these new things as well...come and join us from 2pm @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds
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This afternoon the writing's on the wall...Building a Library in biblical Babylon for Walton's brash, brilliant, chorally challenging 'Belshazzar's Feast', more colourful and dramatic than Rembrandt's famous painting! David Owen-Norris compares recordings from 3pm @BBCRadio3
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...and highlights from the latest new albums, with geust reviewer Allyson Devish @mapleivory and winners from this week's Gramophone Awards. Join is from 2pm @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds
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A Haydn masterpiece in Building a Library today: his string quartet Op. 76 No. 3 in C...yes, you know it! Haydn's Emperor Quartet, with the famous tune 'Austria' as the theme for a set of variations. Recordings compared from 3pm @BBCRadio3 ...and new things 👇come join us!
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Surely one of the sunniest things Beethoven ever wrote? The opening of his Spring Sonata Op. 24, and in Building a Library pianist Kathryn Stott compares recordings of some great violin and piano duos, from Menuhin and Kentner in the 50s to period instruments, from 3pm @BBCRadio3
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...and these new things from 2pm, one of them's my Record of the Week. Come and join us for Record Review, live from 2pm @BBCRadio3 & @BBCSounds
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The Four Temperaments...not the pub picture that inspired Carl Nielsen's 2nd Symphony, but the same characters. Building a Library returns after the summer break to compare recordings from 3pm. Plus a whole new Wagner Ring Cycle from Dallas explored by Flora Willson @BBCRadio3
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An orchestra mesmerised by solo flute, and 3 pieces from 1936. Varèse Density 21.5, Bartok Strings Percussion & Celesta, and Rach 3…written within months and looking in different directions. @BBCSSO celebrates its 90th season @bbcproms @BBCRadio3 join us live *early* 1830!!
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The statue of Johann Sebastian Bach outside St Thomas's Church in Leipzig, and he's Record Review's last Proms Composer of the summer. Somehow Hannah French has chosen her 5 essential Bach recordings for us, find out which from 1430 @BBCRadio3 (go on, you try it! Not simple)...&
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...highlights from these brand-new things as well. Guess which is my Record of the Week?? Join us live from 2pm @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds
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The man who invented the sound of James Bond in the cinema; composer John Barry in the studio in 1965, the year he wrote the music to The Ipcress File...one of my guest Neil Brand's essential Barry recordings. He's our Proms Composer this afternoon in Record Review @BBCRadio3 ...
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...plus highlights from these new albums, and more...and one of them's my Record of the Week. Come and join us live from 2pm @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds
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Aaron Copland in 1933...for many, he more-or-lessinvented the sound of 20th century American music. He's our Proms Composer on this afternoon's Record Review at 2pm, with Allyson Devenish @mapleivory picking her 5 essential Copland recordings @BBCRadio3 ...& these new things 👇
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...one of them is my Record of the Week. Come and join us live from 2pm @BBCRadio3 or afterwards on @BBCSounds
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The blue plaque in London's Great Pulteney St where Haydn stayed on his 1st visit to London. He's our Proms Composer in Record Review @BBCRadio3 - Nigel Simeone joins us to share his 5 essential Haydn recordings. Plus highlights from new releases (see below) Join us live from 2pm
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