Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British Music Playlist and listener requests. Show more
With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love the piano music of Claude Debussy; Artist of the Week: conductor Marin Alsop; Sarah's Essential Choice: Dvorak: Piano Concerto. Show more
Donald Macleod charts developments in the big band sound in the 1950s, from the work of established greats like Duke Ellington and Count Basie, to Gil Evans's work with Miles Davis. Show more
Gergana Gergova (violin) and Alban Gerhardt (cello) in Schulhoff: Duo. Plus Julian Bliss, Lise Berthaud, Philippe Cassard in Mozart, and Nurit Stark and Cedric Pescia in Silvestrov. Show more
Penny Gore presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a performance of Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius. Plus music by Alfven and Szymanowski. Show more
In Tune
Kyung Wha Chung, Harriet Walter, Lucy Parham, Peter Sellars, Zara McFarlane
2 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Korean violinist Kyung Wha Chung returns to In Tune after overcoming a hand injury. And Harriet Walter joins pianist Lucy Parham in Composers in Love. Show more
Donald Macleod charts developments in the big band sound in the 1950s, from the work of established greats like Duke Ellington and Count Basie, to Gil Evans's work with Miles Davis. Show more
Radio 3 Live in Concert
BBC SSO - Sibelius, MacMillan, Shostakovich
2 hours, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Live from City Halls, Glasgow, the BBC SSO conducted by Martyn Brabbins. Sibelius: En Saga. MacMillan: Piano Concerto No 3 (soloist: Peter Donohoe). Shostakovich: Symphony No 5. Show more
As part of the 2014 Free Thinking Festival, Jodie Ginsberg, Rufus Pollock and Kenneth Cukier join Rana Mitter to debate whether the internet can make knowledge open to all. Show more
In an exploration of rituals and attitudes that no longer seem so vital in the modern world, novelist Andrew Martin celebrates 'manual work', which he says fewer embrace today. Show more
Max Reinhardt's selection includes the banjos of Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn, the experimentalism of Leyland Kirby, Native American folk-rock and a remix of Steve Reich. Show more
A selection of music including Mendelssohn performed by the German Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra. Show more
