Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's breakfast show. With the BBC Singers live in the studio performing the final shortlist of six carols in the 2016 Radio 3 Carol Competition. Show more
With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Bach for Advent; Music in Time: Roy Harris: Symphony No 3; Artist of the Week: Charles Munch, featured conducting Mendelssohn's Symphony No 3. Show more
Francesca Caccini’s music is used as a political weapon by the Medici Show more
Viol consort Fretwork performs at LSO St Luke's in London. Gibbons: Pavan and Galliard; Fantasies Nos 1 and 2; Go from my window. Plus music by Lawes, Hume and Purcell. Show more
Afternoon Concert
BBC Performing Groups Live
Episode 4: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra live from Glasgow
2 hours, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Live from City Halls, Glasgow, Alpesh Chauhan conducts the BBC SSO in music by Mendelssohn, Mahler, Britten and Rossini. Plus a recording of a work by Rebecca Saunders. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents music and guests from the arts world, including The King's Men - the choral scholars of King's College, Cambridge - performing live in the studio. Show more
Francesca Caccini’s music is used as a political weapon by the Medici Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
BBC Symphony Orchestra - Tchaikovsky, Saariaho, Prokofiev
2 hours, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
The BBC Symphony Orchestra live at the Barbican. Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture. Kaija Saariaho: True Fire (with Gerald Finley: baritone). Prokofiev: Symphony No 5. Show more
Free Thinking
Calling to Account: Bronwen Maddox, Margaret Hodge, Matthew Parris
45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Anne McElvoy is joined by Margaret Hodge and Bronwen Maddox to consider if public enquiries are good government. Plus Matthew Parris and Ayesha Hazarika on the concept of scorn. Show more
Andrew celebrates the tome Phantasms of the Living. Show more
Fiona Talkington presents a collaborative session featuring Matthew Kaner, Ross Sutherland and The Golden Age of Steam. Plus Randall Thompson's Alleluia and The Furrow Collective. Show more
Continuous broadcast of concert music and opera, recorded in locations around Europe. Show more