Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
James Jolly celebrates Tchaikovsky's birthday. The featured artists are Notos Quartet and there is more music from Radio 3's Breaking Free - Martin Luther's Revolution season. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is National Gallery director Gabriele Finaldi. His musical selections include Ravel, Messiaen, Puccini and Britten, as well as a piece of flamenco. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall, London: Lawrence Zazzo and friends perform music of the Italian Baroque, including Verdelot, D'India, Carissimi, Caccini, Frescobaldi and Strozzi. Show more
The Early Music Show
Breaking Free - Martin Luther's Revolution: Developments in Catholic Music
14 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
For Radio 3's Breaking Free - Martin Luther's Revolution season, Lucie Skeaping explores music written for the Catholic Church as a result of the reforms at the Council of Trent. Show more
Choral Evensong
Gonville and Caius College Choir, Cambridge at Waltham Abbey (Archive)
1 hour on BBC Radio 3
An archive recording from October 2005 with the Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, at Waltham Abbey. Show more
As part of Radio 3's Breaking Free - Martin Luther's Revolution season, Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits the chapel at Hampton Court Palace to explore music from the English Reformation. Show more
Tom Service explores how pieces of music end, asking what endings mean. Are they mere framing devices or do they suggest triumph or death? Plus fading-out in pop music. Show more
A sequence of poetry, prose and music inspired by The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, a 1559 oil painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Readers: Jenny Agutter and Peter Wight. Show more
Chris Bowlby explores how the Reformation shaped German culture and what it means today. He discovers the culture and kitsch in Wittenberg, where the Reformation began. Show more
Ian Skelly presents highlights of concerts given in Lucerne, Lugano and Lausanne, featuring music by Prokofiev, Mozart Melanie Bonis and Gounod. Show more
By Moira Buffini. Black comedy about appetite, with Harriet Walter returning to the role she created as the hostess of an unforgettable evening. Show more
Elin Manahan Thomas presents violin concertos by Haydn and Mozart performed by Giuliano Carmignola with Academia 1750 at the Torroella de Montgri Music Festival in Catalonia. Show more
Ligeti's San Francisco Polyphony and Henze's Seventh Symphony from a recent concert given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Matthias Pintscher. Show more
John Shea presents a concert from Sao Paulo, featuring Villa-Lobos's Guitar Concerto and the Cantata Criolla by Antonio Estevez. Show more