Live from Southbank Centre in London as part of Radio 3's 70th anniversary celebrations, Petroc Trelawny presents the classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Essential Classics
Sound Frontiers: Thursday - Sarah Walker with John Finnemore
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Live from Southbank Centre. My Favourite Contemporary Choral Music; Corelli: Trio Sonata in E minor; Artist of the Week: Andrew Manze, conducting Vaughan Williams's Symphony No 8. Show more
Composer Oliver Knussen explains to Donald Macleod drives him to write music, as well as the kinds of ideas that inspire him. Show more
With Tamar Beraia (piano) in Beethoven's Eroica Variations. Plus Nurit Stark, Mairead Hickey, Georgy Kovalev, Monika Leskovar, Cedric Pescia performing Bloch's Piano Quintet No 1. Show more
Katie Derham presents Rossini's opera Il Turco in Italia performed at the 2016 Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. Speranza Scappucci conducts the G Rossini Symphony Orchestra. Show more
In Tune
Sound Frontiers: Sir Willard White, Carlos Acosta, Elin Manahan Thomas, Alex Mendham and his Orchestra.
2 hours, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
As part of Sound Frontiers - Radio 3 Live at Southbank Centre, London, Sean Rafferty presents music and guests including Sir Willard White and Alex Mendham and his Orchestra. Show more
Celebrating seventy years to the hour that the Third Programme was launched, Robin Brooks's fantastical comedy romps through the first hours of the pioneering station's life. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Sound Frontiers: The Philharmonia performs Stravinsky
2 hours, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Live from the Royal Festival Hall, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in Stravinsky's Oedipus rex and Symphony of Psalms, featuring bass Willard White. Show more
Ian McMillan introduces poet Dame Edith Sitwell reading in an archive recording from 1947. She reads from poetry series entitled Facade as well as the poem Still Falls the Rain. Show more
In front of an audience at Southbank Centre in London, Benjamin Markovits, Lara Feigel and Kevin Jackson join Matthew Sweet to explore some of the key books published in 1946. Show more
Edwina Currie returns to her native city for a ferry ride across the river Mersey, where in an end-of-school ritual she and her peers threw their school berets into the water. Show more
From the Glad Cafe in Glasgow, Verity Sharp presents music from avant-folk composer Daniel Padden's Low Quintet, vocalist/composer Nichola Scrutton and sound artist Mark Vernon. Show more
A mixtape of sounds chosen by vocalist, producer, DJ and yoga teacher Gonjasufi, whose music samples Bollywood playback singer Asha Bhosle and Anatolian rock guitarist Erkin Koray. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents a gala concert from New York's Carnegie Hall featuring Evgeny Kissin in Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1. Show more
