Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents music by Coleridge-Taylor, Bliss and Vaughan Williams. The week's young artist is pianist Andrew Tyson and the neglected classic is Roussel's Symphony No 3. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is sitar player Nishat Khan. His choices include works by Bach, Bruckner, Britten, Mozart and Falla, plus sitar music played by Khan's father and uncle. Show more
Live at Wigmore Hall in London, harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani performs works by Tomkins, Farnaby, Cowell, WF Bach and Reich. Presented by Fiona Talkington. Show more
The Early Music Show
Music in 18th-century Newcastle
22 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Rosemary Southey talks to Lucie Skeaping about the musical environment in the north east of England in the 18th century, with works by Avison, John Garth and Herschel. Show more
Recorded in St Mary's Collegiate Church, Warwick. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores composing music for the liturgy with Michael Finnissy and Roxanna Panufnik. Including what makes a good liturgical composer and what are the pitfalls. Show more
Tom Service explores the appeal of the musical interval of the third. He asks why a major third can feel positive, a minor third sad, plus he discusses the tritone. Show more
Texts and music on the theme of boyhood, with readings by Roger Ringrose and James Stewart. Including Dickens, Ogden Nash, Keats and Guiterman plus Tippett and Byrd. Show more
Art historian Michael Bird visits St Ives to explore the bond between groundbreaking abstract artists Terry Frost and Patrick Heron, who formed an unlikely and lifelong friendship. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
WDR Symphony Orchestra - Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov
1 hour, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
With the WDR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin. Tchaikovsky: Capriccio italien; Francesca da Rimini. Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Isle of the Dead. Show more
Michael Symmons Roberts presents a drama-documentary exploring Paterson, New Jersey, the favoured city of and subject of an epic poem by William Carlos Williams. Show more
A concert of music by Handel and Rameau, with soprano Katherine Watson joining the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Emmanuelle Haim. Presented by Simon Heighes. Show more
A performance given at the 2016 Edinburgh International Festival in which Stephen Hough plays Cesar Franck's Prelude, Choral et Fugue and some of Liszt's Transcendental Studies. Show more
John Shea presents a performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis given at the 2016 Proms. Show more