Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
James Jolly with composers' last works, including Strauss and Schumann. The featured young artist is pianist Kit Armstrong and a British season continues with Walton's Partita. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is singer-songwriter Tanita Tikaram. Her selections include Bach, Vivaldi, Ravel, Mozart, Canteloube and a track by Duke Ellington. Show more
From Wigmore Hall, London, Sean Rafferty presents a piano recital by Till Fellner. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 13 in E flat (Quasi una fantasia). Schumann: Fantasie in C. Show more
The Early Music Show
The Medici Codex - BBC Singers
26 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Robert Hollingworth introduces specially made recordings of music from the Medici Codex: a music book prepared for Pope Leo X in 1518. Show more
From St Davids Cathedral Festival. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch previews Blokefest, an event where men gather together in the Wiltshire countryside to enjoy a weekend of choral singing and male bonding. Show more
The Listening Service
How Do You Make a National Anthem?
29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service on the music, meaning and occasional madness of the world's national anthems. How are they chosen, what are they for and is the music any good? With Alex Marshall. Show more
Texts and music exploring circles, curves and contours, with readers Deborah Findlay and Hugh Fraser. With Shakespeare, Tennyson and Maya Angelou, plus Miles Davis, Bach and Bax. Show more
Sarah Dillon recounts James Joyce's epic struggle to publish Dubliners, including battles with publishers, fire at the printers and a direct appeal to the English king. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - Debussy, Saint-Saens, Ravel, Brahms
1 hour, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Ian Skelly with European concert highlights, including Debussy, Saint-Saens, Ravel and Brahms performed by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Plus Collegium Vocale Gent in Haydn. Show more
Robert Forrest's drama fictionalising the only occasion in which cornet player Bix Beiderbecke and trumpeter Louis Armstrong played together, in a private, after-hours session. Show more
Simon Heighes presents music by Pinto, Vivaldi and A Scarlatti performed by Concerto Romano and soprano Francesca Aspromonte in the Palestrina Hall of the Pamphilj Palace in Rome. Show more
Kurt Atterberg's Fourth and Sixth Symphonies conducted by Ari Rasilainen. Show more
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