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: Handel: Concerti grossi, Op 6; New releases of romantic orchestral works; Disc of the Week: Prokofiev: Piano Concertos.
Mezzo-soprano Brigitte Fassbaender talks to Tom Service about her life and career: her approach to voice, the transition from singer to director and music that means a lot to her. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall in London, Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces the Brentano String Quartet in Shostakovich's Quartet No 11 and Beethoven's Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2. Show more
Singer Joyce DiDonato explores lesser-known American music. Including William Grant Still, Amy Beach, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Charles Griffes, Henry Cowell and Paul Creston. Show more
Matthew Sweet presents a selection of film music on the theme of mathematics and numbers, to coincide with the week's new release The Zero Theorem, directed by Terry Gilliam. Show more
Alyn Shipton presents listeners' requests in all styles of jazz, with music from Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and Mike Westbrook. Show more
Julian Joseph introduces a session at the BBC's Maida Vale studios by funk band the James Taylor Quartet with special guest Nick Smart. Plus a classic album in Now Is the Time. Show more
Radio 3 Live in Concert
San Francisco Symphony - Ives, Adams, Berlioz
2 hours, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
San Francisco Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas. Ives: Piano Sonata No 2 (3rd mvt). Adams: Absolute Jest (with the St Lawrence String Quartet). Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique. Show more
Ivan Hewett presents a programme of French music including works by Pierre Boulez, Eric Tanguy, Pascal Dusapin and Bernard Parmegiani. Show more
Geoffrey Smith surveys the career of trumpeter Lee Morgan. A teenage prodigy whose life was cut short by his death in a shooting at just 33, Morgan won stardom with The Sidewinder. Show more
Jonathan Swain's selection includes Australian composer Graeme Koehne's Clarinet Quintet Time is a River from Sydney and Schubert's String Quintet played by the Takacs Quartet. Show more
