Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Jonathan Swain introduces Schumann's Liederkreis as well music exploring themes of separation, by Shostakovich, Lieberson and Tchaikovsky. Plus Martinu's Double Concerto. Show more
Private Passions
Breaking Free - Martin Luther's Revolution: Eamon Duffy
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Michael Berkeley's guest is Eamon Duffy, professor of the history of Christianity at Cambridge University. His choices include Purcell, Haydn, Elgar and Arab Christian chant. Show more
From Wigmore Hall, London, Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a piano recital given by Louis Lortie. George Benjamin: Shadowlines (Six Canonic Preludes). Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op 28. Show more
The Early Music Show
Breaking Free - Martin Luther's Revolution: The Lead-Up...
19 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Lucie Skeaping looks ahead to the beginnings of the Reformation and composers active in the early years of the 16th century. Show more
From Winchester Cathedral. Show more
Choir and Organ
Breaking Free - Martin Luther's Revolution: The Genevan Psalter
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3
Sara Mohr-Pietsch delves into the world of John Calvin's Genevan Psalter and explores its impact upon composers since the Reformation. Show more
The Listening Service
Breaking Free: Martin Luther's Revolution
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service explores where the idea of communal singing, especially in religious contexts, came from in modern Europe. With Bach scholar John Butt and the Rev Lucy Winkett. Show more
Texts and music on the theme of precipitation, with readings by Lucian Msamati and Lisa Dillon. Includes Chopin, Britten and Copland, plus Hardy, Austen and George Mackay Brown. Show more
Sunday Feature
Breaking Free - Martin Luther's Revolution: A Square Dance in Heaven
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
The Rev Lucy Winkett takes a musical tour of the Reformation, visiting places in Germany where people such as Martin Luther, Bach and Johann Walther lived and worked. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Debussy, Schubert and Wagner performed in Germany
1 hour, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Ian Skelly presents Schubert's String Quintet in C, played by the Armida Quartet at last summer's Kreuth International Music Festival, plus music from the Verbier Festival. Show more
A new production of William Shakespeare's dark tragedy about ambition for power, starring Neil Dudgeon and Emma Fielding. Show more
Elin Manahan Thomas introduces a concert of 16th- and 17th-century European instrumental music given by Il Giardino Armonico under director Giovanni Antonini. Show more
A rare chance to hear Henry Hugo Pierson's symphonic poem Macbeth, Op 54, in a performance given by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth. Show more
John Shea's selection includes contemporary choral music from the Swedish Radio Chorus. Show more
