Sean Rafferty is joined in the studio by a mix of world-class ensembles; Welsh folk group 9Bach perform live and talk about this year's New Music Biennial in Hull and London, and there's beautiful performances from the Heath Quartet and the London Bridge Trio. Also on the podcast, clarinetist Julian Bliss discusses life on the road and performs works by Brahms and André Messager.

Katie Derham presents highlights from In Tune, featuring interviews with Pavarotti’s widow Nicoletta Mantovani, BBC Cardiff Singer of the Year Winner Andrei Kymach. Performances include acclaimed classical guitarist Xuefei Yang; a spirited take on Rossini by violinist Joo Yeon Sir & pianist Irena Andrievsky; and twins Adam & David Moss, known as The Brother Brothers, play American folk.

Katie Derham presents highlights from In Tune, with performances jazz & blues artists Jacqui Dankworth + Charlie Wood; Echea, the Fellowship String Quartet at the Royal Academy of Music; rising star soprano Francesca Chiejina discusses Porgy & Bess; and Sean Rafferty goes to Glasgow for performances by students from the Royal Scottish Conservatoire and Glasgow University Chapel Choir in a special broadcast from the university’s Debating Chamber.

Playlist:

Cole Porter

Every Time We Say Goodbye

Performer: Jacqui Dankworth. Performer: Charlie Wood.

Traditional New Orleans

Junko Partner

Performer: Charlie Wood

Lonnie Chatmon/Walter Vinson

Sitting On Top of the World

Performer: Jacqui Dankworth. Performer: Charlie Wood.

Joseph Haydn

String Quartet in D major, Op 20 No 4 (4th mvt)

Ensemble: Echéa Quartet.

George Gershwin

Summertime

Performer: Francesca Chiejina. Performer: Jeremy Cooke.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

African Love Song

Performer: Francesca Coleridge-Taylor. Performer: Jeremy Cooke.

Benjamin Cooke

Hark, hark the lark!

Glasgow University Chapel Choir / Katy Cooper (cond.)

Traditional

Maids of Mitchelstown

Folk Trio from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Robert Burns

Scots Wha Hae

Performer: Ríoghnach Connolly. Ensemble: Band of Burns

Live music from Gerald Finley + Julius Drake, Stile Antico, and we speak to Renée Fleming

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents musical highlights from In Tune, featuring early music group L'Arpeggiata with a jazzy rendition of a Thomas Morely tune, conductor Douglas Boyd talks about his latest project at Garsington Opera, and cellist Raphael Wallfisch celebrates one of Elgar's most famous works written for the cello. Plus, the London Klezmer Quartet take us through the musical traditions of Eastern Europe.

Highlights from BBC Radio 3's In Tune - Chloe Hanslip and Danny Driver explore the 'sunny side' of Beethoven, and pianist Chilly Gonzales explores the links between Bach and Britney Spears. Sean Rafferty also welcomes the latest crop of BBC New Generation Artists to the studio.

Katie Derham presents musical highlights from across the week on In Tune, including author Alexander McCall Smith on the music which inspires him ahead of a special BBC Symphony concert celebrating his work. Tenor Nicky Spence and pianist Julius Drake perform excerpts from Janáček's 'The Diary of One Who Disappeared' live in the studio, and Beninese singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo explores the African rhythms in the work of Cuban singer Celia Cruz.

Photo credit: Laurent Seroussi

Sean Rafferty presents the best live music and interviews from across the week. In Tune celebrates the launch of the Proms 2019 with performances from announced artists, including the wacky electronic duo Crewdson & Cevanne (with their 'sonic bonnet'!) Nigel Short and his choir Tenebrae pay tribute to Notre Dame after the devastating fire that destroyed much of the cathedral in Holy Week. Plus conductor John Wilson and singer Simon Butteriss chat to Sean about the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment's new production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury, performed on period instruments.

Québécois sensation that is Le Vent du Nord stop by to whip us into a frenzy; the pianist Steven Osborne ruminates on Beethoven's piano sonatas; the early music ensemble Arcangelo perform Vivaldi's homage to the French King Louis XV and we hear from Roman Mints and Alexander Kobrin about the early works of Paul Hindemith.

Bernard Haitink on a career spanning over six decades, Gabriel Jackson’s re-telling of The Passion of our Lord Jesus; pianist Jeremy Denk on his choice of repertoire and “The Pianist of Yarmouk”; Aeham Ahmad on the power of music to bring hope.