Sunday Morning
A programme of music interspersed with intelligent comment
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North and South
An exploration of ideas of north and south in music
Sunday Morning
Iain is live from the Guildhall, Bath, with guests Joanna MacGregor and cellist Tim Hugh.
Sunday Morning
With music inspired by Russia's turbulent history, including Lyadov's The Enchanted Lake.
Sunday Morning
Iain wraps up warm with Tchaikovsky's 'Winter Daydream' Symphony and Purcell's Fairy Queen
Sunday Morning
With music including Schumann's Faschingswank aus Wien and Berlioz's Le carnaval romain.
Sunday Morning
With works inspired by the month of May, including Berio's Folk Songs.
Sunday Morning
Major General Patrick Cordingly guides Iain through music by Parry, Mozart and Handel.
Sunday Morning
With a programme on the theme of food and gluttony that includes music by Bach and Weill.
Sunday Morning
Music includes Busoni's All'Italia, Berlioz's Harold in Italy and Elgar's In the South.
Sunday Morning
Iain focuses on musical heroines and is joined by Peggy Reynolds to talk about hers.
Sunday Morning
Iain explores the science of music, focusing on works by Borodin, Elgar and Hindemith.
Sunday Morning
Including Elgar's Piano Quintet, Prokofiev's opera The Gambler and music by Haydn and Weir
Sunday Morning
Iain explores fairytales with Zemlinsky's Die Seejungfrau and Schumann's Marchenbilder.
Sunday Morning
Including Wagner's Siegfried Idyll and Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2.
Sunday Morning
Mary King sits in for Iain Burnside and explores the world of left-handed musicians.
Sunday Morning
Looking at the notion of musical recycling, with music including Britten's Lachrymae.
Sunday Morning
Jeremy Sams sits in, and explores war and peace with music by Haydn, Elgar and Britten.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside introduces music written for exams and prizes.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside looks at music and sport and considers how they compare and contrast.
Sunday Morning
Iain takes to his sick-bed with works by CPE Bach and Gabrieli, plus the Mozart Requiem.
Sunday Morning
Debating the question that if architecture is frozen music, how does it sound?
Sunday Morning
Iain focuses on the music of Bohemia, introducing pieces by Dvorak, Smetana and Janacek.
Sunday Morning
For a Father's Day special, Iain is joined by poet Jo Shapcott.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein presents great music, listeners' emails, her gig of the week and a new CD.
Sunday Morning
To mark St Patrick's Day, Iain presents a selection of Irish-themed works.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside explores music made in the Indian summer of a musician's creativity: old age
Sunday Morning
Iain with music on the theme of animals, including Britten, Koechlin, Bizet, Saint-Saens.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside and Marcus Du Sautoy explore the connections between music and mathematics.
Sunday Morning
To mark St Cecilia's Day, Iain looks at music about music.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein on the musical and cultural events of 1809. With music by Haydn and Beethoven.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside explores the enduring legacy of Scotland's best-loved poet, Robert Burns.
Sunday Morning
With Nicholas Hytner, director of the National Theatre. Featuring music by Frank Bridge.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein on musicians who have had other careers and passions, including Mussorgsky.
Sunday Morning
Iain considers the relationship between politics and music. Including music by Ligeti.
Sunday Morning
Iain asks if where we listen to music might have an effect on the way we hear it.
Sunday Morning
Iain introduces music by Hummel, D'Indy, Vierne and Haydn, to celebrate Trafalgar Day.
Sunday Morning
Iain considers the influence of landscape on music, focusing on Bax, Howells and Messiaen.
Sunday Morning
Louise Fryer introduces great music, listeners' emails, her gig of the week and a new CD.
Sunday Morning
Iain presents a programme focusing on the themes of war and peace.
Sunday Morning
Iain celebrates the Autumn equinox with topical music including Tippet, Debussy and Mahler
Sunday Morning
Iain ponders the connections between spirituality and music. With Holst, Part and Messiaen
Sunday Morning
Iain and painter Tom Phillips admire musical portraits by Messiaen and Mozart.
Sunday Morning
Focusing on Vienna and the music and musicians who have come from the city.
Sunday Morning
David Owen Norris explores how music complements and enriches drama.
Sunday Morning
Iain looks back on Thanksgiving with music by Ives, Busoni, Copland and Gottschalk.
Sunday Morning
Iain is joined by musicologist Erik Levi to look at the Nazis' relationship with music.
Sunday Morning
Choreographer/director Will Tuckett selects music by Vaughan Williams and Stravinsky.
Sunday Morning
Iain looks at contraptions composers have invented to enliven their sound palettes.
Sunday Morning
Iain looks inside the melting pot of musical America with British composer Tarik O'Regan.
Sunday Morning
To mark the day the clocks go back, Iain fills the extra hour with Haydn's Clock Symphony.
Sunday Morning
Iain ponders the relationship between music and sexuality.
Sunday Morning
Iain ponders philosophy, with Steve Reich's Proverb and works by Mahler and Nietzsche.
Sunday Morning
Iain celebrates the past 12 months in music.
Sunday Morning
Iain considers ideas of light and dark, and how composers have responded to these.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein presents listeners' musical notes and queries, plus a new release.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein presents music on theme of Abbey Road Studios. Plus listeners' emails.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein presents music connected to architecture, from Mozart, Berlioz and Monteverdi.
Sunday Morning
Iain explores Australian music, from ancient songlines to Percy Grainger.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside explores the rich and diverse musical life of Australia.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside on how performance on period instruments affects our appreciation of music.
Sunday Morning
Iain takes a musical tour of the Baltic, with stops in Estonia, Lithuania and Finland.
Sunday Morning
Iain explores the work of famous Belgian musicians, including Ysaye, Franck and Brel.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein presents great music connected to the city of Berlin.
Sunday Morning
Iain and CBSO chief executive Stephen Maddock consider Birmingham's musical tradition.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein explores music linked to the colour blue.
Sunday Morning
Join Suzy Klein and guests for the perfect soundtrack to Boxing Day.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside with music from Canadian musicians such as Glenn Gould and Oscar Peterson.
Sunday Morning
Iain is joined by guests including Nicholas Hytner and Douglas Boyd.
Sunday Morning
Iain explores the use of classical music in film soundtracks.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside investigates how composers have explored ideas of colour in their music.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside presents a piquant take on Christmas and its music. With Kate Williams.
Sunday Morning
Mary King sits in for Iain Burnside and considers how composers have depicted craft.
Sunday Morning
Iain considers how composers have responded to the Creation. Music by Haydn and Milhaud.
Sunday Morning
David Owen Norris explores music of dream and fantasy, including Elgar and Arthur Bliss.
Sunday Morning
David Owen Norris examines the art of the arranger and transcriber.
Sunday Morning
David Owen Norris explores music in Wessex. Music by Holst, Bernstein, Walton.
Sunday Morning
Iain leafs through diaries of great composers, in words and music.
Sunday Morning
Iain looks at the influence of death and bereavement on composers.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein starts 2010 with a celebration of the delights of the table.
Sunday Morning
With Iain Burnside. An exploration of music associated with the city of Dublin.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein presents music featuring early starters - composers and performers.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein presents music associated with education. Plus a new CD and gigs of the week.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein presents music on the theme of emperors. With emails, plus new and archive CDs.
Sunday Morning
Iain explores music inspired by love of country or kingdom, by Elgar, Borodin, Saint-Saens
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein presents music about fairy tales, myths and magic, including Dvorak and Ravel.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside explores the subject of faith in music.
Sunday Morning
In his last Sunday Morning programme, Iain Burnside contemplates musical farewells.
Sunday Morning
Mary King sits in for Iain Burnside and looks at music festivals and their musicians.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein explores the significance of the number five in music.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside considers musical patronage, focusing on Haydn, Bach and Liszt.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein explores food and drink in music. Music is by Rossini, Schubert, Strauss, Bach.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside explores the number four in music.
Sunday Morning
Mary King sits in for Iain Burnside, with music about the therapeutic qualities of gardens
Sunday Morning
Iain considers ancient mythology's link to music, including Debussy, Britten and Barber.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein presents music for Halloween, plus emails, a new CD release and the best gigs.
Sunday Morning
Iain presents with a Handel tribute. Includes music by Handel and others influenced by him
Sunday Morning
Iain considers some of the great music composed for christenings, weddings and funerals.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein focuses on musical heroes and villains. With Beethoven, Strauss and Wagner.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein explores music with holiday connections, by Chopin, Glass, Elgar and Ellington.
Sunday Morning
Iain talks to pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet about Chopin's pianistic influence on Paris.
Sunday Morning
Including Tippet: Dances from The Midsummer Marriage and Sorabji: Transcendental Studies.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside and guest Gyorgy Pauk look at the composers and performers of Hungary.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside on musicians whose later years combined maturity with creativity.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside explores music centring on extremes - high and low, loud and soft.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside focuses on narratives in music and is joined by novelist Patrick Gale.
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Iain Burnside considers musical mavericks, misfits and outcasts. Music by Brahms, Dvorak.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside talks to Rev Dr Giles Fraser; music by Bach, Gabrieli and Messiaen.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside explores music associated with incarceration. With guest Wasfi Kani.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside focuses on prodigies. With violinist Jennifer Pike.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside discusses how the seven deadly sins have been depicted in music.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside explores the theme of siblings. Music by the Mozarts, Bachs and Mendelssohns
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside celebrates life and re-birth. With naturalist and author Richard Mabey.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside explores musical life in Switzerland past and present with Edward Rushton.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside and Suzy Klein with guests Joanna MacGregor, James Bowman and Tarik O'Regan.
Sunday Morning
Mary King sits in for Iain Burnside and presents music of optimism and idealism.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein takes a musical trip with BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner.
Sunday Morning
Mary explores swansongs, posthumous discoveries and unfinished sketches.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein explores musical late bloomers, including Rameau, Bruckner, Franck, Scarlatti.
Sunday Morning
Louise Fryer presents music associated with the number eight.
Sunday Morning
Louise Fryer looks skywards at musical portrayals of the weather.
Sunday Morning
Iain explores love and loss, with musical examples from Brahms, Britten and Alma Mahler.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside explores Manchester's rich musical scene. With music from Gliere and Mozart.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein presents performances by pianists Mark Swartzentruber and Harry the Piano.
Sunday Morning
Mary King sits in for Iain and explores music comparing the ideas of town and country.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside presents a special edition from the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein celebrates the role that great teachers and mentors play. Music by Liszt, Bach.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein on the musical character of metals - brass, steel, gold, silver and platinum.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside presents music on the theme of money. Includes Beethoven, Mozart and Rossini
Sunday Morning
Jeremy Sams sits in for Iain Burnside and explores music about music.
Sunday Morning
With Iain Burnside. Music for midsummer, including Wagner, Mendelssohn, Suk and Britten.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein celebrates musical families, with works from the Bachs, Mozarts and Schumanns.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein surveys musical landscapes, presenting music by Vaughan Williams and Wagner.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein looks at musical magpies, including Rossini, Bernstein and Stravinsky.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein and film-maker John Bridcut discuss musicians' relationship with film.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein celebrates the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme with Daniela Lehner.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein explores music associated with all things nocturnal.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside considers the number three in music. Works are by Britten, Beethoven, Chopin
Sunday Morning
Iain tries to discover why the city of Odessa has produced so many great musicians.
Sunday Morning
Iain asks how a composer decides that his career has started. Music includes Beethoven.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein presents a musical journey following the Orient Express from Paris to Istanbul.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside explores the musical life of Paris. Music includes Ravel and Rameau.
Sunday Morning
With Iain Burnside. Looking at musical borrowing - from Mozart, Dudley Moore and Bartok.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein presents a programme on pastoral pleasures in music. With guest Roger Scruton.
Sunday Morning
Iain presents some of his favourite Purcell recordings.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside presents the Purcell Quartet playing sonatas by Purcell and Corelli.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside asks musical questions and presents music by Beethoven, Wagner and Ives.
Sunday Morning
Iain explores the point where heaven and earth meet in works by Beethoven and Stravinsky.
Sunday Morning
Iain presents music about war, by Stravinsky, Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Milhaud.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein explores musical revolutions, focusing on Paris and Vienna.
Sunday Morning
Mary King sits in for Iain Burnside. Music by Ravel, Barber, Mendelssohn, Liadov, Elgar.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein presents music with September connections, including Tchaikovsky and Weill.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein hosts a Sunday morning full of music and musicians with festival connections.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein's selection of great music. Today's musical theme is the natural world.
Sunday Morning
With Suzy Klein. The theme of this programme is luxury.
Sunday Morning
With Suzy Klein. Featuring music inspired by the sky, including Haydn, Nielsen and Debussy
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside contemplates some great musicians as teachers and pupils.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside explores the influence of technology in music over the centuries.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein considers the diabolical in music and asks if the Devil has all the good tunes.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein presents music connected to the elements.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein focuses on Mozart's early life and works, with special guest Simon Callow.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein explores musical connections to the news. Plus emails and a new CD release.
Sunday Morning
Iain and Marcus du Sautoy to focus on musical partnerships, duos and double concertos.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein is joined by writer and journalist Alex Ross to discuss 20th-century music.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein presents listeners' musical notes and queries, plus thanksgiving turkeys.
Sunday Morning
Ahead of World Mental Health Day, Iain looks at different approaches to musical sanity.
Sunday Morning
Music associated with hurricanes and floods, including Schubert, Liszt and Berlioz.
Sunday Morning
As Americans celebrate the 4th of July, Suzy Klein offers a stateside selection of music.
Sunday Morning
Jeremy sits in for Iain Burnside with a musical tour of Venice, helped by Donald Macleod.
Sunday Morning
Iain and conductor Jane Glover explore how London attracts composers from other countries.
Sunday Morning
Suzy Klein explores musical welcomes, from Janacek, Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Bach.
Sunday Morning
With Iain Burnside. Looking at music and medicine, with works by Bach, Haydn and Brahms.
Sunday Morning
Iain Burnside explores the tonal properties and the wider cultural resonances of wood.