Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love Music for Wind Band; Musical challenge; Artist of the Week: violinist Maxim Vengerov, featured in Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on Schutz's years spent at the penniless court in Dresden. The composer was desperate to retire, but found his pleas ignored. Show more
Quatuor Cambini-Paris performs at the Frick Collection in New York. Hyacinthe Jadin: Quartet in E flat major, Op 2 No 1 (Dissonances). Felicien David: Quartet No 1 in F minor. Show more
Katie Derham presents the BBC Philharmonic in a concert performance of Beethoven's opera Fidelio, with a cast including Rebecca von Lipinski and Stuart Skelton. Show more
Suzy Klein presents music and guests from the arts world. Including pianist Denis Kozhukhin, violinist Christian Tetzlaff, and soprano Anita Watson with Lada Valesova at the piano. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on Schutz's years spent at the penniless court in Dresden. The composer was desperate to retire, but found his pleas ignored. Show more
Radio 3 Live in Concert
Royal Northern Sinfonia - Faure, Mozart, Saint-Saens
2 hours, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Live from Sage Gateshead, Royal Northern Sinfonia directed by violinist Bradley Creswick. Faure: Pavane. Mozart: Flute Concerto in G, K313; Symphony No 36 Saint-Saens: Odelette. Show more
Free Thinking
Fulfilment, Beowulf, The Beaux' Stratagem
45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Anne McElvoy presents. With a debate about work and fulfilment, actor Julian Glover on reworking Beowulf for the stage, and Lucy Powell and Simon Godwin on The Beaux' Stratagem. Show more
Fiona Stafford discusses the holly tree, which reaches huge proportions if not pruned annually for Christmas and has wood so dense it sinks in water. Show more
Max Reinhardt's varied selection includes South African jazz, traditional English song, dystopian hip-hop, a desert blues track and Chicagoan dark rock. Show more
Jonathan Swain's selection includes the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit performing Saint-Saens's Symphony No 3 in C minor (Organ). Show more