Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Record Review
Andrew McGregor with Nicholas Baragwanath and Erica Jeal
3 hours, 12 minutes on BBC Radio 3
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Schoenberg's Gurrelieder; New releases, including Nielsen, Szymanowski, Dvorak, Saint-Saens and Brahms; Disc of the Week. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews the conductor Simone Young. Plus a tribute to the pianist Dinu Lipatti on the centenary of his birth, and a profile of the composer Rued Langgaard. Show more
Chris Jarvis chooses music composed for, and about, children. With Mozart, Britten, Debussy, Mussorgsky, Poulenc, Tchaikovsky, Delibes and Jim Parker's Captain Beaky and His Band. Show more
Matthew Sweet meets composer Anne Dudley for a focus on her music for film, coinciding with the opening of Paul Verhoeven's film Elle. Show more
Alyn Shipton presents a selection of listeners' requests in all styles of jazz, including a classic track from the album Count Basie in London. Show more
Claire Martin presents a BBC Introducing set performed by jazz trio Johnstone/Jarvie/Lowrie at the 2016 Glasgow Jazz Festival. Plus an interview with singer-songwriter Joe Stilgoe. Show more
Live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, a performance of Verdi's great operatic tragedy La Traviata. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva plays the title role of the 'fallen woman'. Show more
Three transgender women share experiences of voices and gender, while writer Alex Bulmer and composer Errollyn Wallen create a song from interviews with other transgender women. Show more
Jazz saxophonist Trish Clowes talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about her Emulsion V improvisation project at the Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham. Plus a re-imagining of music by Gorecki. Show more
Geoffrey Smith explores saxophonist Oliver Nelson's classic album The Blues and the Abstract Truth, as well as other collaborations including with Eric Dolphy and Jimmy Smith. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents a performance from Dublin of Peteris Vasks's Violin Concerto and Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony. Show more