Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Sarah Walker includes familiar and much-loved music by Haydn, Schubert and JS Bach, and Sunday Escape features the work of Zdenek Fibich, Howard Skempton and Gyorgy Ligeti. Show more
Writer Simon Sebag Montefiore discusses his latest novel Red Sky at Noon, the last of his Moscow Trilogy, with Michael Berkeley as part of Radio 3's celebration of Russian Culture. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Wigmore Hall Mondays: Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad and David Meier
58 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Live from Wigmore Hall, London, Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad, a BBC New Generation Artist, plays viola music by Schumann, Hindemith and Ysaye with pianist David Meier. Show more
The Early Music Show
Music at the Court of Catherine the Great
23 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Lucie Skeaping introduces music from the court of Catherine the Great in Russia, including Galuppi, Sarti and Traetta as well as local talent like Bortniansky. Show more
From Royal Holloway Chapel, University of London. Part of Radio 3's 'Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture'. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces unmissable choral music. Six King's Singers perform the impossible in Tallis's 40-part Spem In Alium, plus Gershwin and Durufle. Show more
The Listening Service
The Synthesizer. Hannah Peel, Peter Zinovieff
29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service investigates the rise of the synthesizer, an initially crude assemblage of electrical components that became one of the most ubiquitous musical instruments. Show more
Lisa Dwan and Peter Marinker present with a programme inspired by the art of Malevich exploring the idea of abstraction. Show more
Patrick McGuinness travels to Targu Jiu in Romania to explore Constantin Brancusi's First World War memorial The Endless Column, now considered a modernist masterpiece. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Glazunov's The Seasons and Schnittke's Choir Concerto.
1 hour, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture. Ian Skelly introduces performances of Glazunov's The Seasons of 1900 and Schnittke's Choir Concerto. Show more
Radio 3 puts a spotlight on the best of Russian contemporary playwriting by producing three specially commissioned short plays written by young playwrights working in Russia today. Show more
Music by Monteverdi, Sances and Marini performed at 2017's Concentus Moraviae Festival by Cantar Lontano. Show more
Tecwyn Evans conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Dvorak's much-loved symphony 'From the New World'. Show more
Through the Night
Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture. Prokofiev's oratorio 'Ivan the Terrible'
6 hours
on BBC Radio 3
John Shea presents an archive performance of Prokofiev's Oratorio 'Ivan the Terrible' taken from the Eisenstein film score of 1942. Show more
