Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist and listener requests. Plus requests for works by neglected composers. Show more
James Jolly's selection includes music from the great American mezzo-soprano Grace Bumbry. Plus, the Beethoven Violin Sonata cycle reaches No 3 in E flat, Op 12, No 3. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is singer Laura Mvula. Her musical choices include Debussy Elgar, Tippett, Walton and her music teacher, Joe Cutler, plus Nina Simone and Miles Davis. Show more
Presented by Sean Rafferty, live from Wigmore Hall in London, Ronald Brautigam performs Mozart's Sonata K283, Beethoven's 'Pathetique' Sonata and Haydn's late E flat Sonata. Show more
The Early Music Show
Charles Burney's German Journey
58 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Lucie Skeaping interviews musician and publisher Ian Gammie about Charles Burney's journey through Europe in the 1770s, as he looked for material for his book A History of Music. Show more
Live from Southwark Cathedral. Show more
Choir and Organ
Barbershop, Edward Higginbottom and Verdi's Requiem
1 hour, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Sara Mohn-Pietch explores the colourful world of barbershop, plus a Choral Classic - Verdi's Requiem - and Meet My Choir. Show more
In the words of Shakespeare, Milton, Burns and Carol Ann Duffy, John Sessions and Indira Varma elucidate the comedy and tragedy born of the apparent innocence of good intentions. Show more
Sunday Feature
Clocks and Clouds: An Adventure Around György Ligeti
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
On the centenary of his birth, a portrait of the Hungarian composer György Ligeti, a magnificent and mischievous musical spirit. Show more
Live from Perth Concert Hall, the RLPO under Vasily Petrenko. Elgar: In the South (Alassio), Op 50. Stewart Copeland: Percussion Concerto. Prokofiev: Symphony No 6, Op 111. Show more
Set on a Louisiana plantation in the 1850s, Dion Boucicault's classic melodrama exploring Abolition and the role of theatre in politics. Show more
To complement our Sunday Feature, a selection of Gyorgy Ligeti's music performed by the BBC SSO with Ilan Volkov, Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Elisabeth Chojnacka. Show more
The Oslo Philharmonic and Chorus conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste in Verdi's Requiem, presented by Catriona Young. Show more
