Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
With Rob Cowan. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Scriabin's Prometheus: The Poem of Fire; Artist of the Week: William Christie, featured conducting music by Mozart. Show more
Donald Macleod on how Monteverdi, frustrated by his Mantua employers' ingratitude, turned increasingly towards the Church as a source of lucrative employment and commissions. Show more
Christopher Purves (baritone) in Schubert: 6 Heine settings (Schwanengesang) and Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death. Plus Cuarteto Casals in Bartok: String Quartet No 3. Show more
Afternoon Concert
Wednesday - BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra
1 hour, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
With the BBC Singers performing music by Jonathan Harvey and Elizabeth Poston. Plus the BBC Symphony Orchestra and soloist Rachel Barton-Pine playing Elgar's Violin Concerto. Show more
From Lincoln Cathedral. Show more
Suzy Klein presents, with live music from cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and contralto Sonia Prina. Plus conductor Thomas Dausgaard in conversation from Glasgow. Show more
Donald Macleod on how Monteverdi, frustrated by his Mantua employers' ingratitude, turned increasingly towards the Church as a source of lucrative employment and commissions. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra - Franck, Saint-Saens, Rachmaninov
2 hours, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
From Symphony Hall, Birmingham, the CBSO conducted by Karina Canellakis. Franck: Le chasseur maudit. Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No 5. Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances. Show more
Free Thinking
Rachel Seiffert, James Hawes, Richard Nelson, 2017 New Generation Thinker Alistair Fraser on gangs.
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Presented by Anne McElvoy. With playwright Richard Nelson discussing his plays about a US family in election year, Rachel Seiffert on new novel, and the etymology of gangs. Show more
Screenwriter Ron Hutchinson discusses working with Arthur Miller's drafts and handwritten notes to 'get inside his writing head word by word' and examines Miller's technique. Show more
Verity Sharp with songs for the middle of May from Ed Dowie, Lisa Knapp and Anita O'Day. Plus a dub tribute to Dylan Thomas and a setting of a Mother Teresa text by Peteris Vasks. Show more
Catriona Young presents a concert from the Martha Argerich Project 2016, including Dvorak's Piano Quintet in A, Op 8, and Shostakovich's Violin Sonata. Show more
