Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and exploring musical earworms: catchy tunes that become stuck in people's minds. Show more
Sarah Walker is joined by John Sloboda and Aaron Williamon, international authorities on the psychology of music, to explore the science behind music's ability to stir emotions. Show more
Andrew McGregor, psychologist Lauren Stewart and composer-pianist Neil Brand explore the neurological basis of musically generated moments of peak emotion - the 'tingle factor'. Show more
Victoria Williamson and soloists from the Aurora Orchestra explore the role music plays in memory in a concert including Beethoven, Franck, Stravinsky and Brahms. Show more
Private Passions
Why Music? Weekend: Frank Wilczek
33 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Michael Berkeley is joined by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Prof Frank Wilczek. His musical choices include Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Queen, and Gilbert and Sullivan. Show more
Tom Service is joined by Philip Ball and Steven Mithen to explore the latest theories on the origins of music-making and its relationship with human evolutionary development. Show more
Andrew McGregor is joined by wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, who plays recordings to demonstrate connections between the sounds of nature and human music-making. Show more
The Clerks led by Edward Wickham discover the links between music and language in a newly commissioned musical sequence, and Sarah Walker talks to Ian Cross and Edward Wickham. Show more
Tom Service and Sarah Walker, together with Why Music? resident experts Victoria Williamson and Philip Ball, look back over the weekend's highlights and discoveries.
Radio 3 in Concert
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto and Souvenirs de Florence
1 hour, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Music by Tchaikovsky: Gringolts Quartet, Jonathan Brown (viola), Arnau Tomas (cello) in String Sextet. Plus Anne-Sophie Mutter and Vienna Philharmonic in the Violin Concert in D. Show more
An adaptation of Arnold Wesker's landmark play that captures the collapse of an ideology alongside the disintegration of a family. With Samantha Spiro and Danny Webb. Show more
Ensembles La Fenice and Vox Luminis perform at the 2015 Stockholm Early Music Festival. Charpentier: Messe pour les trepasses a 8 (excerpts); Miserere des Jesuites a 6. Show more
Music by Schumann: Lise Berthaud (viola) and Adam Laloum (piano) perform Marchenbilder, Op 113. Plus Zhang Zuo (piano) in Etudes en formes de variations, Op 13. Show more
Jonathan Swain's selection includes a performance of Rachmaninov Vespers from the Croatian Radio-Television Chorus. Show more