Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
With Rob Cowan. Including musical challenge; Music in Time: Medieval; Artist of the Week: William Christie, featured as keyboard player in music by Royer and Handel. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on Monteverdi's acquiring the dubious gift of a pet monkey as well as the consequences for music of the outbreak of plague in Venice. Show more
Javier Perianes (piano) in a concert given at the Frick Collection in New York. Schubert: Drei Klavierstucke, D946. Debussy: La soiree dans Grenade (Estampes); Albeniz: El Albaicin. Show more
Afternoon Concert
Thursday Opera Matinee - Monteverdi 450: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
2 hours, 45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Katie Derham presents a performance of Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria from Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, conducted by early music specialist Rene Jacobs. Show more
In Tune
Sam Sweeney, Rob Harbron and Paul Sartin, Karen Slack, Leslie Howard
1 hour, 45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Suzy Klein's guests include folk trio Sam Sweeney, Rob Harbron and Paul Sartin, plus soprano Karen Slack and pianist Leslie Howard. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on Monteverdi's acquiring the dubious gift of a pet monkey as well as the consequences for music of the outbreak of plague in Venice. Show more
Live at St Giles Cripplegate Church, a concert of organ music with performances for the Orgelbuchlein Project. With William Whitehead (organ) and BBC Singers under Paul Brough. Show more
Free Thinking
Fiona Shaw and Mark Ravenhill on Brecht, John Knox, Joanne Paul
45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Philip Dodd explores the history of speaking truth to power with New Generation Thinker Joanne Paul. Plus dramas about the beliefs and ideas of John Knox and Galileo. Show more
Director David Thacker discusses his close friendship and working relationship with Arthur Miller, especially on the script for Broken Glass for its British premiere in 1994. Show more
Nick Luscombe previews BBC Music's involvement at Brighton festival The Great Escape 2017. Plus a celebration of cellist, singer, and producer Arthur Russell, who died in 1992. Show more
Catriona Young introduces a piano recital of Schubert and Beethoven given by Maria Joao Pires and Julien Brocal at the Chopin and His Europe Festival in Warsaw. Show more