Three hours of classical sparkle

This week, Petroc Trelawny sits in for Sarah Walker with a playlist full of stories and surprises, travelling from Renaissance Spain and operatic Italy to the magical world of Aladdin.

There’s the exuberance of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro Overture, the lyrical slow movement from Bruch’s First Violin Concerto, and chamber music from Dvořák and Schubert.

Petroc also heads to 16th-century Spain for this week’s Choral Reflection, with music from Cristóbal de Morales’s beautiful Mass for the Armed Man, sung by De Profundis.

The programme also includes new releases, featuring music by Karl Weigl and the early recording pioneers Justin Ring and Frederick Hager. And for the morning’s chance to put down the to-do list and settle in for something a little longer, Petroc opens the pages of Nielsen’s colourful Aladdin Suite, a musical adventure inspired by the tales of One Thousand and One Nights.

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3.