Martin Handley presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with requests and Power of Three: the next instalment of a series of sounds from the BBC Third Programme and Radio 3 archives. Show more
Jonathan Swain explores how composers have taken Shakespearean themes for inspiration. With Chausson, Thomas Linley the younger, Nyman and Tchaikovsky, plus a work by Schuman. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is cultural historian Lara Feigel. Her selections include music from Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Strauss as well as a song from Marlene Dietrich. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Wigmore Hall Mondays - Steven Isserlis and Olli Mustonen
58 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
From Wigmore Hall, Steven Isserlis (cello) and Olli Mustonen (piano). Schumann: 3 Romances; Album fur die Jugend (excerpt). Mustonen: Frei, aber einsam. Prokofiev: Cello Sonata. Show more
The Early Music Show
Sound Frontiers: In support of early music
34 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Lucie Skeaping is joined by Catherine MacKintosh, Peter Holman and Nick Wilson to discuss how Radio 3 helped to support and shape the early music movement in its early years. Show more
An archive recording of the Memorial Evensong for Sir George Thalben-Ball which was broadcast live from Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, London on 28 January 1988. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores vocal masterpieces by composers not usually known for their works for choir. She also hears from composer Paul Mealor about his life in choral music. Show more
Musicologist Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis joins Tom Service to explore why repetition is so essential in music. Show more
Texts and music centring on how artists articulate tragedy and the human spirit, with readings by Malcolm Storry and Michelle Terry. With Blake and Yeats plus Messiaen and Bruckner. Show more
Sunday Feature
The Secrets of the Music Reading Panel
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Charlotte Higgins investigates how the BBC chose new pieces of music for performance and broadcast - who were the gatekeepers? Show more
Ian Skelly presents music from concerts given at music festivals in continental Europe in 2016. With works by Josquin, Debussy, Mozart, Lubica Cekovska, Shostakovich and Part. Show more
In 1965 Joe Orton visits the American Embassy in London. He is immediately caught up in a Kafkaesque world of oppression and paranoia. Show more
Elin Manahan Thomas with highlights from a concert of Baroque music given at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival by Ensemble 1700. With Fasch, Jiranek, Vivaldi and Telemann. Show more
John Andrews conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a new recording of early works by Arthur Sullivan: Marmion and The Tempest (incidental music). Show more
John Shea presents a performance from Denmark of Sven-David Sandstrom's St John Passion. Show more
