Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Essential Classics
Wednesday - Sarah Walker, plus Rob Cowan with Alistair McGowan
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite Vivaldi Concertos; Music in Time: Honegger's Pacific 231; Artist of the Week: mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly, featured in music by Handel. Show more
Donald Macleod describes how Brahms reduced a society hostess to tears for owning 'Wagnerian trash'. Including Sommerabend, Symphony No 2 (1st mvt), Violin Concerto (2nd 3rd mvts). Show more
Maya Iwabuchi, Kanako Ito (violin), Scott Dickonson, Tom Dunn (violas), Martin Storey, Aleksei Kiseliov (cellos) at the Cottier Chamber Project. Strauss: Sextet Dvorak: Sextet. Show more
A Prom in which Vladimir Jurowski conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Magnus Lindberg: Two Episodes. Beethoven: Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral). Show more
From Gloucester Cathedral during the Three Choirs Festival. Show more
Sean Rafferty's guests include conductor Bernard Haitink and pianist Belle Chen. Plus comedian and composer Vikki Stone with the new Proms podcast The Proms Unplucked. Show more
Donald Macleod describes how Brahms reduced a society hostess to tears for owning 'Wagnerian trash'. Including Sommerabend, Symphony No 2 (1st mvt), Violin Concerto (2nd 3rd mvts). Show more
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, BBC NOW under Jac van Steen. Dukas: La Peri. Michael Berkeley: Violin Concerto (with Chloe Hanslip). Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (excpts). Show more
The Armida Quartet perform Janacek's String Quartet No 2, inspired by the composer's love for Kamila Stosslova, a married woman nearly 40 years his junior. Show more
Adam Smith explores Nathanael West's great 1938 Hollywood novel The Day of the Locust and its roots in the political turmoil of its time. Show more
The Essay
The Five Photographs that (You Didn't Know) Changed Everything
Episode 1: Anna Bertha's Hand
15 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Kelley Wilder of De Montfort University, Leicester, discusses the 1896 x-ray photograph of Anna Bertha Ludwig Rontgen's left hand that changed medicine. Show more
Adventures in music, ancient to future. Nick Luscombe presents a new piano track by Suplington, Hareton Salvanini's psychedelic arrangements and afro-rock from Demon Fuzz. Show more
Through the Night
Maria Joao Pires, Julien Brocal - Chopin and his Europe festival
6 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Catriona Young introduces a piano recital of Schubert and Beethoven given by Maria Joao Pires and Julien Brocal in Warsaw. Show more
