Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Virtuoso and Romantic Encores for Violin; Artist of the Week: Frans Bruggen; Sarah's Essential Choice: Smetana: Tabor (Ma Vlast). Show more
Donald Macleod continues his exploration of Mendelssohn's last seven years with a look at the year 1844. Show more
Katie Derham presents the Nash Ensemble performing at LSO St Luke's in London. Strauss: Prelude (Capriccio). Brahms: String Sextet No 1 in B flat, Op 18. Show more
Barokopera Amsterdam in Purcell: Now does the glorious day appear (excerpts). Plus the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic in Mozart and Amsterdam Sinfonietta in Shostakovich. Show more
From Westminster Cathedral. Including the first broadcast of a new composition commissioned for the Choirbook for the Queen, a collection of contemporary anthems. Show more
Presented by Sean Rafferty. Including young saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings, ahead of his collaboration with the BBC Concert Orchestra at the 2012 London Jazz Festival. Show more
Donald Macleod continues his exploration of Mendelssohn's last seven years with a look at the year 1844. Show more
Concert in which Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Sibelius: Karelia Suite. Arutyunyan: Trumpet Concerto (soloist: Tine Thing Helseth). Show more
Stephen Johnson explores Mahler's First Symphony to try and discover its true meaning among the folksongs, military fanfares and sounds of nature the score features. Show more
Concluding a concert from Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in a performance of Mahler's First Symphony. Show more
For Free Thinking 2012, Samira Ahmed presents a discussion in which historian Tom Holland and theologian Mona Siddiqui debate the difference between Islam and Christianity. Show more
For Free Thinking 2012, Oxford University historian and Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Jonathan Healey gives a talk questioning the value of lessons from history. Show more
Max Reinhardt presents music by John Coltrane and the Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, plus Jonathan Harvey's Ricercare una melodia and Stian Westerhus's The Wrong Kind of Flowers. Show more
Presented by John Shea. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's Beethoven symphony cycle concludes with the celebrated Ninth (Choral). Show more
