Live from Sage Gateshead, Martin Handley presents a special Free Thinking edition of Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Record Review
Andrew McGregor with Kate Molleson and Kirsten Gibson
3 hours, 12 minutes on BBC Radio 3
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time; New releases of music by Dowland and his contemporaries; Disc of the Week. Show more
Live from Sage Gateshead as part of the Free Thinking Festival 2017, Tom Service presents a special programme exploring our perception of music and time in daily life. Show more
Richard Sisson presents a selection of music on the theme of time, including Prokofiev's Cinderella, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique and works by Finzi, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven. Show more
Matthew Sweet is joined by Guy Austin, the founding director of the Research Centre in Film and Digital Media in Newcastle, to explore the history of music for French cinema. Show more
Alyn Shipton presents a live edition from Radio 3's pop-up studio at Sage Gateshead for the Free Thinking Festival 2017, exploring time in jazz. With music from pianist Paul Edis. Show more
Julian Joseph presents performances by trombonist Dennis Rollins, vocalist Cleveland Watkiss and pianist Richard Michael, recorded at the Edinburgh Festivals. Show more
From the Metropolitan Opera in New York, a performance of Rossini's Guillaume Tell, an epic telling of the William Tell fable. With baritone Gerald Finley and soprano Marina Rebeka. Show more
Thomas Dausgaard conducts music by Helen Grime, Sally Beamish, Jay Capperauld and Peter Maxwell Davies for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's Scottish Inspirations season. Show more
Geoffrey Smith selects some of the best recordings by Hammond organ master Jimmy Smith. His mix of jazz with rhythm and blues produced a string of hit records. Show more
To mark the centenary of Dinu Lipatti's birth, John Shea presents a selection of music composed and performed by him. Show more