Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
With Sarah Walker. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Hummel; Artists of the Week: London Sinfonietta, featured playing a suite from Weill's The Threepenny Opera. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on the reasons why Gade made a momentous decision to return to Denmark in 1848. With String Quartet in D, Op 63 and Symphony No 4 in B flat. Show more
Ana Lucia Richter (soprano), Denis Kozhukhin and Michael Gees (pianos) featuring in performances of music by Schubert and Weber. Presented by Fiona Talkington. Show more
Afternoon Concert
Thursday Opera Matinee: Donizetti - Rosmonda d'Inghilterra
2 hours, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Catriona Young presents a performance of Donizetti's opera Rosmonda d'Inghilterra given at the Florence Opera House. Sebastiano Rolli conducts. Show more
Sean Rafferty's guests include trumpeter Alison Balsom and cellist Laura van der Heijden. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on the reasons why Gade made a momentous decision to return to Denmark in 1848. With String Quartet in D, Op 63 and Symphony No 4 in B flat. Show more
BBC SSO under Ilan Volkov perform Edmund Finnis's The Air, Turning, Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, with Steven Osborne, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade. Show more
Free Thinking
'Play' in urban design, Gillian Allnutt
45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Philip Dodd explores the importance of 'play' in urban design with Stephen Witherford, Clare Melhuish, Ben van Bruggen and Jonathan Glancy. Plus poet Gillian Allnutt. Show more
Stuart Kelly focuses on the work of Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka and German artist Joseph Beuys. Show more
Verity Sharp introduces sets from Chris Sharkey aka Survival Skills, free impov duo Death Shanties, and psychedelic folk group The Family Elan. Show more
Violinist Nigel Kennedy introduces a mixtape of his favourite violin-led tracks. Including Jean-Luc Ponty, John Abercrombie and Jarek Smietana, and Stephane Grappelli. Show more
Catriona Young presents a recital of Mozart, Scarlatti and Debussy given by pianist Fou Ts'ong at the 1968 Dubrovnik Summer Festival. Show more