Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
With Rob Cowan. Musical challenge; Music in Time: Giaches de Wert: Vox in Rama; Artist of the Week: keyboard player George Malcolm, featured playing Poulenc's Organ Concerto. Show more
Donald Macleod introduces the cello sonata dedicated to a friend Beethoven asked to help him find a wife and the choral work barely finished in time for his own benefit concert. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music 2017
Episode 1
58 minutes on BBC Radio 3
With Bach: Brodsky Quartet perform Bach's The Art of Fugue (Nos 1 and 9) and Vikingur Olafsson (piano) plays Partita No 6. Plus Trio Gaspard in Gareth Williams's Blush. Show more
With Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3. Plus the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven: Leonore Overture No 2. Berlioz: La mort de Cleopatre. Wagner: Siegfried Idyl. Show more
Sean Rafferty's guests include Timothy Burke with English Touring Opera, young conductor Victor Aviat and the Endellion String Quartet. Show more
Donald Macleod introduces the cello sonata dedicated to a friend Beethoven asked to help him find a wife and the choral work barely finished in time for his own benefit concert. Show more
Lothar Koenigs conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican in London. Wolfgang Rihm: Piano Concerto No 2 (soloist: Nicolas Hodges). Bruckner: Symphony No 7 in E. Show more
Free Thinking
Japan Now Festival at the British Library
45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Christopher Harding is joined by novelist Yoko Tawada, film-maker Momoko Ando, chapbook editor Elmer Luke and Japanologist Alex Kerr. Show more
An essay by Tash Aw about writer Anthony Burgess. Show more
Max Reinhardt's varied selection includes Arseny Avraamov's Symphony of Sirens, Milton Babbitt's Composition for Synthesizer and Egisto Macchi's Violenza Meccanica. Show more
Catriona Young presents a performance of Handel's opera Tamerlano at the 2014 Poznan Baroque Festival in Poland. Show more