Martin Handley presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with the Best of British Music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Plus neglected composers and amateur music groups. Show more
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Songs by Henry Purcell; Harriet Smith on recent Faure releases; Disc of the Week: Russian Treasures.
Presented by Tom Service. With a review of Christopher Alden's production of Rigoletto at English National Opera, plus an interview with Scottish-American composer Thea Musgrave. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall, London. Canadian violinist James Ehnes and his quartet play music for string quartet by Beethoven, Suk and Bartok. Presented by Louise Fryer. Show more
Ella Spira previews the music by the nominees of Best Score in the 2014 BAFTA Film Awards alongside a selection of music written by great composers for the British cinema. Show more
On the eve of the announcement of the 2014 BAFTA Film Awards, Matthew Sweet looks back on some of the prize-winning film scores, including The Lion in Winter and Skyfall. Show more
Alyn Shipton's selection of listeners' requests includes music from Howard McGhee and George Russell.
Julian Joseph presents saxophonist Art Themen performing with his ensemble New Directions at the tenth Jazz on a Winter's Weekend festival in Southport. Show more
Radio 3 Live in Concert
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena. Brahms, Lizst and Bartok
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The BBC Philharmonic and its chief conductor Juanjo Mena in a concert of Hungarian music plays Brahms and Bartok. Stephen Hough joins them for Liszt's First Piano Concerto. Show more
Novelist Xiaolu Guo's first radio drama, set in a vast chicken processing plant in the Pacific Ocean. Two young convict-labourers read Dostoevsky and dream of a different life. Show more
Tom Service introduces a concert of new music performed by the London Sinfoneitta as part of the Southbank Centre's The Rest is Noise festival from December 2013. Show more
Geoffrey picks highlights from the career of saxophonist Stan Getz. Blending West Coast cool and lyricism with a bossa nova beat, Getz was a major jazz star for almost 50 years. Show more
John Shea's selection includes Italian pianist Federico Colli, winner of the 2012 Leeds International Piano Competition, in a recital of music by Mozart and Schubert. Show more
