Martin Handley presents a refreshing selection of music. Show more
Suzy Klein explores music with holiday connections, including Chopin, Glass, Elgar and Duke Ellington. Plus a gig guide, a new release, concert reviews and an archive recording. Show more
Michael Berkeley is joined by is Libyan author Hisham Matar. His choices include Arabic music as well as Chopin, Sibelius, Ligeti, Schubert and Bob Dylan. Show more
The Early Music Show
Thomas Ravenscroft - Harmony to please, varietie to delight
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and music of Thomas Ravenscroft - the 17th-century English composer who aimed to produce 'harmony to please, and varietie to delight'. Show more
Fiona Talkington introduces Radio 3 listeners' requests including Elisabeth Schwarzkopf singing Strauss and Mahler's Adagietto plus a request from author Alexander McCall Smith. Show more
From the Priory Church, Edington, Wiltshire, during the 2010 Festival of Music within the Liturgy. Show more
Stephen Johnson is joined by violinist Matthew Trusler, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Grant Llewellyn, to explore the challenging Violin Concerto by Brahms. Show more
From the Royal Albert Hall, London. John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Dvorak's ebullient Carnival Overture and Martinu's Sixth Symphony. Show more
Poet and archaeologist Peter Didsbury reveals his love of rain, describing how it grew out of his interest in literature, as well exploring as idioms used to talk about it. Show more
Presented by Petroc Trelawny, from the Royal Albert Hall. John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Czech Philharmonic and pianist Lars Vogt in Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor. Show more
Rana Mitter examines Czech genius, from Kafka and Capek to Hrabal and beyond. Rana is joined by guests Rajendra Chitnis and James Hawes to explode the stereotypes. Show more
From the Royal Albert Hall, London. John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Janacek's Ballad of Blanik and Dvorak's Symphony No 8 in G. Show more
Robert Worby examines the least-documented aspect of the Futurist art movement - the Art of Noises, asking why it continues to resonate for many musicians and artists today. Show more
Texts and music on the theme of the afterlife, with readings by Sophie Okonedo and Paul Copley. Including Dante, Milton and Wilfred Owen, plus Britten, Ives, Crumb and Scriabin. Show more
Claire Martin presents the latest jazz news and releases, plus an interview with vocalist Norma Winstone, who talks about her new collaborative release Stories Yet To Tell. Show more
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