Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love Concerti Grossi; Musical challenge; Artist of the Week: Stephen Layton, featured conducting Handel's Chandos Anthem No 8. Show more
Donald Macleod discusses the Mendelssohn family's extensive music-making, including the famous 'Sunday musicales'. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Ludlow English Song Weekend 2015
Episode 1: Finzi, Ireland, Hugh Wood and Jonathan Dove
1 hour on BBC Radio 3
Clare McCaldin (mezzo-soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor) and Iain Burnside (piano) perform Finzi's A Young Man's Exhortation and other songs at the 2015 Ludlow Song Weekend. Show more
With Penny Gore. Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin. Walton: Crown Imperial. Vaughan Williams: Norfolk Rhapsody No 1. Plus music by Britten, Havergal Brian and John Alden Carpenter. Show more
Presented by Suzy Klein. Including conductor Harry Christophers in conversation, plus live music from horn player Alec Frank-Gemmill and Concerto Caledonia. Show more
Donald Macleod discusses the Mendelssohn family's extensive music-making, including the famous 'Sunday musicales'. Show more
From Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, BBC Philharmonic under John Storgards. Nielsen: Symphonies Nos 1 and 4. Mahler: 4 Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Roderick Williams: baritone). Show more
Free Thinking
Fairgrounds and Freaks, Carsten Holler
45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Matthew Sweet presents. With a focus on an exhibition of Carsten Holler's art at London's Hayward Gallery, plus a discussion about fairgrounds, circuses and the idea of the freak. Show more
Writer and cultural commentator Fintan O'Toole explains why it is not always necessary to like everything about the man himself to appreciate the wonder of the poetry of WB Yeats. Show more
New solo synthesizer music from Lossy, back in time with folk jazz from the Bill Smith Quartet and modern soundtrack work from Alexandra Benedict and Tris Taylor. Show more
John Shea presents a selection of Rameau suites and arias performed by soprano Nadine Kourcher and Musica Aeterna conducted by Teodor Currentzis. Show more