Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast Show, including Grainger's Gum-Sucker's March, Ravel's Alborada del Gracioso, and Nielsen's The Cockrel's Dance. Show more
With Sarah Walker. Including Artist of the Week: soprano Soile Isokoski. Puccini: La boheme (excerpt). Mozart: Ch'io mi scordi di te?; Sarah's Essential Choice: Strauss: Don Juan. Show more
Composer of the Week
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
Episode 3: Boccherini Finds a Princely Patron in Spain
1 hour on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod focuses on Boccherini's move to Spain, where he began to work for the King's brother, writing music such as The Aviary and his first setting of the Stabat Mater. Show more
Mary Ann Kennedy presents the Brodsky Quartet in a concert from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Shostakovich: String Quartet No 4. Debussy: String Quartet. Brodsky Quartet. Show more
Penny Gore presents music from the BBC SSO. Berlioz: Overture (Rob Roy). Britten: Les Illuminations. Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture. Mozart: Symphony No 40. Bach: Partita No 2. Show more
From Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, with music by Byrd, Dyson, Grier and Messiaen. Show more
Presented by Sean Rafferty. With music from pianists Jan Lisiecki and Lucy Parham, composer Stevie Wishart, and Sandi Toksvig talking about the Women of the World Festival. Show more
Composer of the Week
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
Episode 3: Boccherini Finds a Princely Patron in Spain
1 hour on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod focuses on Boccherini's move to Spain, where he began to work for the King's brother, writing music such as The Aviary and his first setting of the Stabat Mater. Show more
Radio 3 Live in Concert
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Stravinsky, Strauss, Beethoven
2 hours, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Kirill Karabits. Stravinsky: Octet. Strauss: Wind Serenade. Stravinsky: Concerto for Piano and Winds (with Frank Braley). Beethoven: Symphony No 5. Show more
Ahead of the centenary of Bram Stoker's death, Philip Dodd presents a Landmark edition of the programme devoted to the Victorian gothic horror novel Dracula. Show more
Writer Richard T Kelly considers the plight of the working-class sportsman whose glory days are numbered in Lindsay Anderson's 1960s film This Sporting Life. Show more
Max Reinhardt's varied selection includes a lost recording by Stinky Winkles with Greg Bright, a live recording of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and a John White piano sonata. Show more
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