Live from Southbank Centre in London as part of Radio 3's 70th anniversary celebrations, Martin Handley presents the classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Record Review
Sound Frontiers: Building a Library - Chopin's Piano Concerto No 1
3 hours, 12 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Live at Southbank Centre with Andrew McGregor. Includes Building a Library: Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1; Kathleen Ferrier's 1946 recording of Gluck's What Is Life?; Music from 1946. Show more
Music Matters
Sound Frontiers: Who Cares If You Listen?
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Live at Southbank Centre, Tom Service and leading figures in music consider the relationship between modern composers and audiences at the start of the Third Programme in 1946. Show more
Live from the Southbank Centre in London, actress Patricia Hodge presents a personal selection of music that has inspired and influenced her across her own seven decades. Show more
Sound of Cinema
Episode 139: Sound Frontiers: 1946
22 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Matthew Sweet presents a selection of film music from the year 1946. With scores by Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, Mischa Spoliansky, Hugo Friedhofer, Miklos Rozsa and Alan Gray. Show more
Live from Southbank Centre in London as part of the celebrations of Radio 3's 70th birthday, Alyn Shipton presents listeners' jazz requests for music from 1946. Show more
Claire Martin marks the 70th anniversary of the BBC's Third Programme by playing music from the 1940s and onwards, including Stan Getz. Plus the Charlie Parker with Strings album. Show more
A performance of Britten's chamber opera The Rape of Lucretia given at Glyndebourne, in Fiona Shaw's production. With soloists Claudia Huckle, Kate Valentine and Allan Clayton. Show more
Recordings of some of the music first heard in the year the Third Programme was born. With works by Frank Martin, Weber, Ives and John Cage. Show more
Tom McKinney presents live music from composer collective Bastard Assignments and hears from former Radio 3 new music commissioner Andrew Kurowski about some 1960s landmark pieces. Show more
Geoffrey Smith traces the career of bass player Charlie Haden, who starred in Ornette Coleman's quartet, played in a duo with Keith Jarrett and led his own Liberation Orchestra. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales performing Vaughan Williams's Concerto accademico, Elgar's Froissart and Walton's Second Symphony at the 2015 BBC Proms. Show more
