Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British Music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Show more
With Rob Cowan. Essential CD of the Week: Inspirales - Hillel Zori (cello), Arnon Erez (piano); Artist of the Week: Maurizio Pollini; Essential Choice: Mozart: Coronation Mass. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on the price Schubert paid for his love of sensual pleasures. Show more
Jonathan Lemalu, Joseph Middleton in Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death. Plus the Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble in Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence. Show more
Louise Fryer presents music performed by the Ulster Orchestra. Berlioz: Overture (Le roi Lear). Walton: Violin Concerto (soloist: Tasmin Little). Sibelius: Symphony No 3. Show more
From the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on the price Schubert paid for his love of sensual pleasures. Show more
Radio 3 Live in Concert
BBCSO and Singers - Beethoven, Boulez, Dufourt, Grisey
2 hours, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Ilan Volkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers. Grisey: Megalithes. Hugues Dufourt: Piano Concerto. Boulez: cummings ist der Dichter. Beethoven: Symphony No 7 In A. Show more
Zhang Weiwei, one of China's foremost public intellectuals, talks to Rana Mitter about why his country should not become a democracy. Show more
The Essay
The Book that Changed Me
Episode 3: Simon McBurney on And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
15 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Actor/director Simon McBurney explores how ideas of connection and memory in John Berger's And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos are essential to his theatrical work. Show more
Max Reinhardt's selection includes calypso from Lord Mouse and the Kalypso Cats, Maori ensemble Whiri Tu Aka, Lithuanian group the Concrete Bunnies and Mexican diva Carla Morrison. Show more
Catriona Young's selection includes a concert from Bratislava, with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Berlioz and Ravel, and Brahms's Piano Concerto No 1 with Kasparas Uinskas. Show more