Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
James Jolly remembers the events of 9/11, introducing John Adams's work On the Transmigration of Souls. Plus music by Beethoven, Howells, Martinu, Merula and Purcell. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is architect Daniel Libeskind, who oversaw the rebuilding of the World Trade Center in New York. His choices include works by Perotin, Saariaho and Bach. Show more
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Iestyn Davies (countertenor) and Joseph Middleton (piano) perform songs by Purcell, Mendelssohn and Quilter, including settings of Shakespeare. Show more
Hannah French explores the tradition of Tafelmusik: music written for banquets or feasts and performed around tables. With works by Telemann, Byrd, Schein, Vivaldi and Praetorius. Show more
Recorded at St Clement Danes Church, London, and sung by Genesis Sixteen. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietch marks the centenary of Hubert Parry's Jerusalem, with guest choir Blossom Street singing songs by Judith Weir, Elgar, Parry and the Beatles. Show more
The Listening Service
Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto
32 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service explores Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, asking what is the secret of its continuing emotional appeal and also why critics disliked it so much. Show more
Includes music by Purcell, Eno and Pärt and poems by Elizabeth Bishop, William Blake, Emily Dickinson and Louis MacNeice read by Niamh Cusack and Neil Pearson. Show more
Jonathan Glancey reviews the remarkable career of the late architect Dame Zaha Hadid, visiting recent projects of hers. Including interviews with Hadid and former colleagues. Show more
Camerata Salzburg under Andrew Manze in excerpts from Handel's Acis and Galatea and JC Bach's Symphony in G minor, Op 6 No 6. Plus Denis Matsuev in Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 2. Show more
By David Rudkin. Michael Pennington stars as the Greek poet and playwright Euripides who, in exile in Macedonia, begins to hear strange voices from a mountainside. Show more
Simon Heighes and Elin Manahan Thomas introduce a programme of music by Purcell, Locke and Blow performed by Vox Luminis under director Lionel Meunier. Show more
Performances given by pianist Stephen Hough. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor, Op 18. York Bowen: Piano Sonata No 5 in F minor, Op 72. Show more
Through the Night
Parac and Schnittke from the Croatian Radio-Television Chorus
6 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Catriona Young's selection includes a performance of Fortunae Rota by Frano Parac and Alfred Schnittke's Concerto for Choir. Show more
