Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring youth music on the Musical Map of Britain and works by Carl Friedrich Abel, Walter Leigh and Sibelius. Show more
Rob Cowan explores how 19th and 20th-century composers have tackled rhapsody form. With a Mozart symphony and his String Quintet, K516, plus JC Altnikol's Nun danket alle Gott. Show more
Michael Berkeley presents a special edition from Sage Gateshead for Radio 3's 2013 Free Thinking festival. Chris Mullin, former MP, writer and diarist, selects his favourite music. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
City of London Festival 2010
Episode 4: Elias Quartet at the 2010 City of London Festival
58 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Louise Fryer presents the Elias String Quartet peforming a concert at the 2010 City of London Festival. Villa Lobos: String Quartet No 1. Mendelssohn: String Quartet, Op 80. Show more
Lucie Skeaping explores the extensive journals of composer John Marsh, said to represent one of the most important musical and social documents of the 18th century. Show more
An archive broadcast from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, first transmitted on September 11th, 1981. Show more
From Sage Gateshead, for Free Thinking 2013, Greg Beardsell presents music from choral groups from the North East. Plus folksongs from the region. Show more
A live edition from Radio 3's 2013 Free Thinking festival of ideas, with readers Madelaine Newton and Kevin Whately, plus music from Kathryn Tickell and the Leonore Piano Trio. Show more
AL Kennedy argues that Henry Ford's introduction of the assembly line in 1913 marked a decisive shift in the relationship between man and machine, reducing people's humanity. Show more
Radio 3 Live in Concert
Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra - Assad, Bernstein, Mahler
2 hours, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Marin Alsop conducts the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra at Bridgewater Hall. Clarice Assad: Terra Brasilis. Bernstein: Symphonic Dances (West Side Story). Mahler: Symphony No 1. Show more
Drama by Katie Hims. Dave has a good life: his own company, a wife, a big house, children at private schools. When he becomes careless, things start to go wrong. Show more
Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in David Matthews's Third and Fifth Symphonies. Show more
Presented by Catriona Young. Including Spanish pianist Luis Grane performing music by Albeniz, Liszt and Chopin. Show more