For Sound Frontiers - Radio 3 Live at Southbank Centre, Petroc Trelawny presents the breakfast show, with requests and a new specially composed work by Composer in 3 Matthew Kaner. Show more
Essential Classics
Sound Frontiers: Wednesday - Sarah Walker with John Finnemore
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Live from London's Southbank Centre. My Favourite Contemporary Choral Music; Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio espagnol; Artist of the Week: Andrew Manze, in Biber: Rosary Sonata No 9. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on Oliver Knussen's long-time friendship with Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of the famous children's book Where the Wild Things Are. Show more
From the 2016 West Cork Festival, the Chiaroscuro Quartet in Beethoven's String Quartet in E flat 'Harp'. Plus Mairead Hickey (violin), Ella van Poucke (cello) in Schulhoff's Duo. Show more
Live from the Royal Festival Hall: BBC NOW brass, BBC NOW wind and BBC National Chorus of Wales under Adrian Partington. Plus BBC NOW strings in Tchaikovsky's Serenade in C, Op 48. Show more
Live from Westminster Abbey on the Eve of the Feast of St Michael and All Angels, celebrating the first broadcast of Choral Evensong from the Abbey on 7 October 1926. Show more
Katie Derham introduces a recording of Florent Schmitt's Psaume XLVII, with soprano Christine Buffle joining the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales under Thierry Fischer. Show more
In Tune
Sound Frontiers: Sam Lee, Claire Martin and Joe Stilgoe, Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Jette Parker Young Artists
2 hours, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
As part of Sound Frontiers - Radio 3 Live at Southbank Centre, London. Sean Rafferty is joined by Alex Mendham and his Orchestra to mark Radio 3's 70th anniversary. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Sound Frontiers: London Sinfonietta - Coll, Coult, Davies, Birtwistle
2 hours, 25 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
London Sinfonietta under Martyn Brabbins. Francisco Coll: Liquid Symmetries. Tom Coult: Spirit of the Staircase. Tansy Davies: Falling Angel. Birtwistle: Five Lessons in a Frame. Show more
Free Thinking
Sound Frontiers: Success debated by Peter Frankopan, Edith Hall, Kwame Kwei-Armah
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Anne McElvoy, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Edith Hall and Peter Frankopan explore the idea of success in drama, literature and history and how that translates to the contemporary world. Show more
Novelist and memoirist Gervase Phinn, a former teacher and schools inspector, recalls joining the pilgrims on a visit to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Show more
Verity Sharp's selection includes George Monbiot's musings on loneliness, Irish experimental music as discovered by Jennifer Walshe and post-rock from Stars of the Lid. Show more
Jonathan Swain's selection includes Nielsen's Violin Concerto, with soloist Malin Broman joining the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Joana Carneiro. Show more
