Gillian Reynolds reviews the week in radio, including Radio 3's drama One Winter's Afternoon, which imagined what would happen if Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi met in real life.
Violinist Alina Ibragimova steps into the breach with an unscheduled performance of Bach's E major solo Partita at the Southbank's Borletti-Buitoni Trust concert.
Violinist Alina Ibragimova steps into the breach with an unscheduled performance of Bach's E major solo Partita at the Southbank's Borletti-Buitoni Trust concert.
With his virtuosic new recording of opera tunes, Poland's Roch Modrzejewski has revived a much-neglected corner of the guitar repertoire, says John Allison.
Young director Carrie Cracknell has worked on devised, experimental and classical theatre but now she's moved on to opera. Rupert Christiansen meets her.