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Picks from across the week on In Tune with Katie Derham, including Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon composer Tan Dun, musicologist Robert Levin and New York's Harlem Quartet.

Picks from across the week on In Tune with Sean Rafferty, including mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato with conductor Sir Antonio Pappano, and pianist Imogen Cooper. Plus, in the week of the untimely death of Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conductor Semyon Bychkov and Sir Bryn Terfel pay him tribute.

Marin Alsop on the moment she decided she wanted to be a conductor, after encountering/watching Leonard Bernstein as a 9 year old at a Young Persons Concert. This week’s podcast also includes conversations with two great musical partnerships; the French pianist Louis Lortie and violinst Augustin Dumay, as well as the pianist Inon Barnatan and the cellist Alissa Weilerstein, who first began performing together during a cold Boston winter…

Highlights from the week, including Russian musicians Semyon Bychkov and Yevgeny Sudbin.

Highlights from the week, including Jessica Duchen, Vienna Piano Trio and Benjamin Appl.

Picks from across the week on In Tune. Sean Rafferty talks to Stephen Fry about penning an opera libretto for the composer Louis Mander; Angela Hewitt discusses Bach and Scarlatti; and Alice Sara Ott explains the childlike essence of Grieg's music.

Picks from across the week, including Dame Felicity Lott and tenor Michael Fabiano. Sean talks to Dame Felicity Lott about her role in the Wigmore Hall / Kohn Foundation International Song Competition; oud virtuoso Yair Dalal plays and talks about his Iraqi Jewish heritage; fabulous tenor Michael Fabiano tells us about his music education work and current role in La Boheme; and mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski, one of the Wigmore Hall song competition winners, performs live in the studio.

Picks from the week, including Lucie Horsch, Rachel Kelly, Vikki Stone, and Chineke!

Picks from the week, including Dave Holland, Alban Gerhardt and a trip to Edinburgh.

Picks from across the week on In Tune with Suzy Klein. She talks to Albert Mazibuko of the great choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo; conductor, composer and Proms favourite Jules Buckley; and pianist Zhang Zuo aka Zee Zee.

Picks from across the week including bass-baritone Gerald Finley, conductor David Hill, trumpeter John Wallace, soprano Natalya Romaniw and Ron Davis with his Sympharonica orchestra

Picks from across the week on In Tune with Suzy Klein including Sir Bryn Terfel, Sir Thomas Allen, Pekka Kuusisto and Lise Davidsen. Plus Québécois folk group Le Vent du Nord.

Picks from across the week, including Chris Riddell, Rachel Podger, Nicholas Collon and Dame Beryl Grey.

Picks from across the week on In Tune. Sean Rafferty's guests include soprano Pretty Yende, conductor Herbert Blomstedt and the Danish String Quartet.

Picks from across the week on In Tune with Suzy Klein, featuring pianist Jeremy Denk, conductor Karina Canellakis, contralto Sonia Prina and fiddle player Sam Sweeney.

Top picks from across the week on In Tune including conductor Andrew Litton, tenor Bryan Hymel and soprano Kristin Lewis from the Royal Opera House, saxophonist and composer John Harle, tenor Nicholas Mulroy with lutenist Toby Carr, and French Harpsichordist Jean Rondeau with percussionist Keyvan Chemirani.

Picks from across the week on In Tune. Sean Rafferty's guests include dancer Edward Watson, percussionist Colin Currie, violinist Alexandra Soumm, horn player Ben Goldscheider, and Kathleen Ferrier Award Winner Julien van Mellaerts. Plus music from the London Adventist Chorale as part of Radio 3's Breaking Free: Martin Luther's Revolution season.

Picks from across the week on In Tune. Sean Rafferty's guests include dancer Edward Watson, percussionist Colin Currie, violinist Alexandra Soumm, horn player Ben Goldscheider, and Kathleen Ferrier Award Winner Julien van Mellaerts. Plus music from the London Adventist Chorale as part of Radio 3's Breaking Free: Martin Luther's Revolution season.

Picks from across the week on In Tune with Sean Rafferty: violinist Daniel Hope, conductor Marin Alsop, choral director David Skinner and violinist Min Kym. Plus a jazzy little encore courtesy of choral group Voces 8.

Top picks from across the week on In Tune, including pianist Murray Perahia, Oliver Mears and Antonio Pappano from the Royal Opera House, and crime novelist Donna Leon. Plus pianist Joseph Middleton who was recently nominated for two Royal Philharmonic Society Awards with soprano Mary Bevan, and finally folk musicians Kathryn Tickell and Amy Thatcher from Radio 3's Uproot Festival in Hull.