Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with the Specialist Classical Chart available to download as a podcast. Featuring Janine Jansen and Piers Lane. Show more
With Rob Cowan. Essential CD of the Week: Homage to Pavlova; Brainteaser: Critic's Corner. Artist of the Week: Quartetto Italiano; Rob's Essential Choice: Bloch: Poeme mystique. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on two rare and exotic musical impressions from Saint-Saens's trips to North Africa, plus a virtuoso showpiece for the harp. Show more
Louise Fryer with music from the Bath Mozart Fest 2013. Takacs Quartet, Lawrence Power (viola) in Mozart: String Quartet in B flat (The Hunt). Trio Wanderer in Ravel: Piano Trio. Show more
Louise Fryer presents music by emigre composers. Live from Belfast, the Ulster Orchestra performs works by Stravinsky, Bartok and Dohnanyi. Plus Schoenberg and Korngold. Show more
Sean Rafferty's guests include conductor Edward Higginbottom. Plus music from singer Clara Sanabras with the Elysian Quartet. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on two rare and exotic musical impressions from Saint-Saens's trips to North Africa, plus a virtuoso showpiece for the harp. Show more
Radio 3 Live in Concert
Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Episode 1: OAE - Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schubert (part 1)
1 hour, 5 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
From the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, Margaret Faultless leads the OAE. Beethoven: Coriolan Overture. Mendelssohn: Concerto in A flat (Robert Levin, Ya-Fei Chuang: fortepiano). Show more
Stephen Johnson explores Beethoven's most playful symphony, the Eighth, to reveal a mastery of the form and a work replete with as many radical ideas as many others he created. Show more
Radio 3 Live in Concert
Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Episode 2: OAE - Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schubert (part 2)
1 hour, 35 minutes
on BBC Radio 3From the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, Margaret Faultless leads the OAE. Schubert: Fantasia in F minor, D940. Beethoven: Symphony No 8. Robert Levin, Ya-Fei Chuang (fortepiano). Show more
Night Waves
Orwell, Stoicism Week, Sue Webster and Gavin Turk on Glass Art
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Philip Dodd discusses Orwell and englishness, artists Gavin Turk and Sue Webster on working in glass, and Stoic Week. Show more
In a series about key thinkers and achievements from the Islamic Golden Age, Professor Robert Gleave discusses Ali ibn Abi Talib and the origins of Shi'ism. Show more
Anne Hilde Neset presents a varied selection of music. Show more
John Shea's selection including pianist Lukas Geniusas performing both sets of Chopin's Etudes, as well as Liszt's B minor Sonata. Show more
