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 with music by composers who were late bloomers, including Scriabin, Bruckner, Rameau and Franck. Plus Busoni's Carmen Fantasy and music from violinist Esther Yoo. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is astronaut Chris Hadfield. He chooses music from Strauss, Rossini, Hans Zimmer, William Herschel and Holst. Show more
From Wigmore Hall, London, in 2016, tenor Ilker Arcayurek and pianist Simon Lepper perform songs by Schubert and Schumann's Dichterliebe, Op 48. Show more
The Early Music Show
Utrecht Festival 2016 - Capriccio Stravagante and Vox Luminis
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3
Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert of Venetian music given at the 2016 Utrecht Festival by Vox Luminis and the Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra. Show more
From Portsmouth Cathedral on the Feast of St Andrew. Show more
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. With highlights from the category finals of Choir of the Year, Meet My Choir, some choral surprises and Sara's Choral Classic: Gorecki's Totus Tuus. Show more
Tom Service considers what can be done with the semitone. Tom talks to mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly about the tragic falling semitones of Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas. Show more
From Elizabeth Bennet's wet walk in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice to Robyn Davidson's trip across the Australian desert. With music from Eliza Carthy to Ethel Smyth. Show more
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Ian Skelly presents music by Mozart, Haydn and Kodaly performed in the Haydn Hall in Castle Esterhazy in Austria, plus Tchaikovsky from the Regentenbau in Bad Kissingen in Germany. Show more
Colin Morgan reads Louis MacNeice's poetic testament of life in 1938, written amid the turbulence of the Munich Agreement and preparations for war. Introduced by Colette Bryce. Show more
Elin Manahan Thomas presents a concert of music by the Bach family and Frantisek Xaver Dusek performed by virtuoso harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani. Show more
Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Singers in Britten's seven settings of Gerard Manley Hopkins, AMDG. Show more
Catriona Young presents the first programme in a series featuring Mozart's complete piano concertos from Russian Radio, with pianist Mikhail Voskresensky. Show more
