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This week it's Haydn's friends, colleagues and relations who share in the music featured on air. After the composer's Piano Trio in A at 3.41 am on Sunday morning, Lucy Skeaping explored the life & work of in the Early Music Show (1 pm). Soon after the youthful Haydn's treble voice broke, he was dumped by at in Vienna, and Porpora, who was both a renowned singing teacher and a composer, employed Haydn as a kind of general musical handyman, giving him a good grounding in Italian vocal techniques. It's worth catching this and the other broadcasts on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ iPlayer if you miss the original broadcast time, or if like most people you use the night hours for sleep! These blogs link to the broadcast information pages - there's always an iPlayer link for the seven day period when the broadcast is accessible.

Haydn's brother Michael appeared at 3.42am in Through the Night this morning with a charming Divertimento in A, and around the same time tonight we can hear Joseph's , the last of his big C major symphonies featuring trumpets and timpani. A nice gesture of friendship is the ' solo' for violin in the trio of the Minuet for his impresario colleague who brought him to England in 1791.

and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic are carrying on Radio 3's chronological symphonic marathon this week by featuring on D minor (Lamentation) on Wednesday at 10.24 and on Friday at 11.45 in G, both in Classical Collection. The collaboration between the ´óÏó´«Ã½PO and Kraemer has been interesting: symphony orchestras players understandably tend to get out of the habit of playing this repertoire, but so far the Manchester musicians have produced some enjoyable performances. Long may they continue!

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