Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Jonathan Swain introduces music with Egyptian connections, including the Record Review recommendation of Verdi's Aida. Plus works by Berlioz, Arroyo, Debussy and David Fanshawe. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is theatre director Thomas Ostermeier. His musical selection features 20th-century composers including Shostakovich, Bartok, John Adams and John Cage. Show more
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Lucie Skeaping introduces some of the composers active at the court of Mannheim in the second half of the 18th century, Including Stamitz, Cannabich, Richter and Danzi. Show more
From Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. Show more
The National Youth Choir GB are curating the first International Youth Choirs Festival this April. Sara talks to deputy artistic director Greg Beardsell. Show more
The Listening Service
Who Wrote the First Folk Song?
29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service considers the question of who wrote the first folk song. He is joined by ethnomusicologist and folk singer Dr Fay Hield as well as folklore expert Steve Roud. Show more
Texts and music on the theme of blood, with readings by Indira Varma and Rory Kinnear. With John Webster, Bram Stoker and Heaney, and Monteverdi, Gesualdo, Gluck, Bartok and Barber. Show more
Sarah Dillon explores the stories behind the stories of how great works were written, focusing on the arduous composition of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. Show more
Ian Skelly presents a concert given in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, featuring music by Schreker, de Leeuw and Glinka. Plus the original version of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1. Show more
Disturbing new version of Shakespseare's rarely produced drama Pericles, where murder, intrigue, shipwrecks and prostitution tear a king's family apart. With Willard White as Gower Show more
Simon Heighes with music performed by Concerto Copenhagen at the 2016 Tivoli Festival in Copenhagen. Handel: Overture in B flat (Rodrigo, HWV336); Cantata, HWV122 'Apollo e Dafne'. Show more
Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in John Pickard's Sixteen Sunrises and Concertante Variations. Show more
Catriona Young presents Haydn's Paukenmesse and Faure's Requiem performed at the 2016 Proms by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Show more
