Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Jonathan Swain explores fantasies and fantasias from all eras of music, from Gibbons to Tippett. Plus music by Bach, Saint-Saens and James MacMillan. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is physicist Athene Donald. Her musical choices including works by Janacek, Bach, Mozart and Lili Boulanger. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Wigmore Hall Mondays: Pekka Kuusisto and Nicolas Altstaedt
58 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Pekka Kuusisto (violin) and Nicolas Altstaedt (cello) live at Wigmore Hall, London. Bach: Two-part Inventions (selection). Jorg Widmann: 24 Duos (selection). Ravel: Violin Sonata. Show more
Lucie Skeaping looks at the plot, history, performances and recordings of one of Handel’s most enduring operas, Giulio Cesare, first performed at London's Haymarket in 1724. Show more
From Manchester Cathedral. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch's guest is composer Robin Holloway, who introduces some of his favourite choral music. Sara's Choral Classic is Gabrieli's 33-part Magnificat. Show more
Tom Service explores the enduring power of love songs. Including critic Ted Gioia on ancient hymns to love, tenor Ian Bostridge on lieder, and love as a subversive force in opera. Show more
Texts and music on the theme of nonsense, with readers Griff Rhys Jones and Debra Stephenson. Including Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, plus Bach, Ligeti and Gilbert and Sullivan. Show more
Sarah Dillon discovers how Jane Austen's last completed novel, Persuasion, was written. She discusses Austen's last illness, possible plot inspirations and her creative process. Show more
SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra under Stephane Deneve in Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin and Mozart's Piano Concerto No 24. Plus the Kuss Quartet in Schubert's String Quartet No 14. Show more
By JB Priestley. Not long after the end of WWI the Conway family gather for daughter Kay's 21st birthday. However, 19 years later the future is far from the one they imagined. Show more
Hesperion XXI plays music recounting the life of the 13th century writer, philosopher and Franciscan tertiary Ramon Llull, credited with the first work of Catalan literature. Show more
The Amadeus Quartet performs Britten's String Quartet No 2. Show more
Catriona Young presents Verdi's Requiem from the 2015 Proms, performed by soloists and chorus with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Donald Runnicles. Show more
