Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
James Jolly presents a performance of Charles Ives's Second Symphony. Plus music from Rimsky-Korsakov and Busoni, Medtner's Sonata Reminiscenza, and the young artist of the week. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guests is writer on families Andrew Solomon. His musical choices include Mozart, Strauss, Vaughan Williams, Rachmaninov, Reynaldo Hahn, Strauss and Britten. Show more
From Wigmore Hall, London, the Van Kuijk Quartet play Schubert's String Quartet in E flat, D87, and Ravel's Quartet in F, in a concert from 2017. Show more
Lucie Skeaping delves into Handel's opera Alcina, with contributions from musical director Alan Curtis, who recorded the work in 2007 with his ensemble Il Complesso Barocco. Show more
From Rochester Cathedral. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch meets one of the UK's most progressive amateur choirs, Musarc, and reflects on the choral music of Estonian composer Veljo Tormis with conductor Paul Hillier. Show more
Tom Service explores the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and asks whether this musical vision of utopia is more dangerous than the composer could ever have imagined. Show more
Texts and music on the theme of the suburbs, with readers Emily Joyce and Philip Frank. With Betjeman, Dickens, Kureishi, and DH Lawrence, plus Bach, Glass and Kaikhosru Sorabji. Show more
Samira Ahmed explores how Victorian art critic John Ruskin promoted women's liberation through a radical model for girls' education set out in his essay, Of Queens' Gardens. Show more
Ian Skelly presents music by Haydn and Telemann performed at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, plus Brahms from the 2016 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival. Show more
Christopher Eccleston stars in Anthony Burgess's adaptation of the great tragedy of Oedipus. A radio debut co-starring Fiona Shaw, Don Warrington and Adjoa Andoh. Show more
Simon Heighes introduces music performed by Concentus Musicus Wien at the 2016 Stockholm Early Music Festival. With works by Schmelzer, Weichlein, Muffat and Fux. Show more
The BBC Philharmonic conducted by Yutaka Sado performs Dvorak's Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95 'From the New World'. Show more
Catriona Young presents a concert from Croatia celebrating the music of Jakov Gotovac. Show more
