Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating the Baroque Spring season with the Breakfast Forty-Eight and the Musical Map of Britain. Show more
With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Tchaikovsky - Complete Ballets; Prof Germaine Greer; Artist of the Week: John Eliot Gardiner; Stravinsky: The Firebird. Show more
Donald Macleod on Handel's Italian patrons - princes, marquises, cardinals, duchesses - all dazzled by the brilliance of the man they knew as Il caro Sassone (the dear Saxon). Show more
Igor Levit in a live recital at Wigmore Hall. Schubert/Liszt: Sei mir gegrusst. Schubert: 6 Moments Musicaux, D780. Liszt: Apres une lecture du Dante (Annees de pelerinage). Show more
Katie Derham presents Baroque masterworks. Charpentier: Te Deum. Bach: Toccata and Fugue, BWV540. Telemann: Overture-Suite, BWV593. Marais: Les folies d'Espagne. Show more
Guests include Mitsuko Uchida, Marin Alsop, Signum String Quartet, cellist Guy Johnston with Tom Poster. Plus Daniel Hope with a Baroque Masterclass for Radio 3's Baroque Spring. Show more
Donald Macleod on Handel's Italian patrons - princes, marquises, cardinals, duchesses - all dazzled by the brilliance of the man they knew as Il caro Sassone (the dear Saxon). Show more
Live from City Halls, Glasgow, John Wilson conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Walton: Portsmouth Point, An Overture. Finzi: Cello Concerto (soloist: Paul Watkins). Show more
Stephen Johnson explores Holst's The Perfect Fool. Show more
From City Halls, Glasgow, the conclusion of a concert featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under John Wilson. Holst: The Perfect Fool (ballet music). Bax: Garden of Fand. Show more
Night Waves
Sex in the Arab World, a New Age of Enlightenment, the Louvre as History
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Presented by Philip Dodd. With the new film Broken, the book Sex and the Citadel, debating if we are living in a new Age of Enlightenment, and the story of the Louvre. Show more
In a series about noises that annoy us, author and journalist Andrew Martin explains 'phonophobia' and describes the strange measures he takes to banish it. Show more
Jez Nelson presents a concert in which Argentinian pianist and composer Guillermo Klein performs his music at the Wigmore Hall with a quartet of New York jazz musicians. Show more
John Shea presents a concert of music for flute, harp and viola by Debussy, Bax and Takemitsu performed in Sweden. Show more
