Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
James Jolly presents musical portraits of the orient, by composers including Sullivan, Hosakawa, Messager, Mascagni and Britten. The week's young artist is Swiss tenor Mauro Peter. Show more
In a programme recorded on location in west Dorset, Michael Berkeley is joined by writer on gardens and landscape Anna Pavord. Her musical choices include Bach, Schubert and Elgar. Show more
From Wigmore Hall in London, music from viol consort Phantasm, with English music from the 17th century by Matthew Locke and three of the Royall Consorts of William Lawes. Show more
Swiss ensemble Les Passions de l'Ame performs its Edge of Europe programme as part of the 2017 London Festival of Baroque Music, with music by Schmelzer, Walther, Biber and Fux. Show more
From Wells Cathedral on the Eve of Ascension Day. Show more
Jeffrey Skidmore, the artistic director of Birmingham-based ensemble Ex Cathedra, talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about how his group has grown since it was founded in 1969. Show more
The Listening Service
Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto
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Tom Service explores Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, asking what is the secret of its continuing emotional appeal and also why critics disliked it so much. Show more
Texts and music on the theme of England and the English, with readings by Meera Syal and Philip Franks. With Linton Kwesi Johnson, plus Ades, Elgar, Cornershop, Byrd and Purcell. Show more
Tracing the activities of four unlikely wartime propagandists, Graham Greene, George Orwell, AL Lloyd and Laurie Lee, through the corridors of the Senate House Building in London. Show more
Ian Skelly presents the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Daniel Barenboim at 2017's Prague Spring International Music Festival. Frantisek Skroup: Kde domov muj. Smetana: Ma vlast. Show more
By Stephen Wyatt. Starring the late Tim Pigott-Smith, a drama blending the psyche of Jean Sibelius, his music and the Finnish national epic The Kalevala. Show more
Elin Manahan Thomas introduces a recital given by celebrated countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and Ensemble Artaserse, featuring Italian baroque arias and instrumental music. Show more
A sequence of music by Sibelius. Show more
Jonathan Swain's selection includes a choral concert given in Cologne. Show more