Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Sarah Walker and music with a Norwegian flavour. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is Anne Sebba, the best-selling biographer of iconic women including Wallis Simpson, Laura Ashley and Mother Teresa. Show more
From the Wigmore Hall, London. Tenor Christoph Pregardien and pianist Julius Drake perform Schumann's Eichendorff Liederkreis and Romantic ballads by Karl Loewe. Show more
The Early Music Show
A Frenchman at King James's Court
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Lucie Skeaping investigates the musical world of Huguenot composer Jean Servin and finds out what he was doing at the court of King James VI of Scotland in 1579. Show more
Live from Norwich Cathedral. Show more
Roderick Williams presents an hour of unmissable music for many voices including two very different accounts of the Fall of Jericho and a Viennese waltz that is strictly choral. Show more
The Listening Service
Is Music a Universal Language?
29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
In the third 'Listening Service' linking with the BBC's Civilisations series, Tom Service asks whether music really is a universal language. Show more
Texts and music on the theme of precipitation, with readings by Lucian Msamati and Lisa Dillon. Includes Chopin, Britten and Copland, plus Hardy, Austen and George Mackay Brown. Show more
An alternative look at Japan through its uneasy relationship with ghosts, travelling to the deep countryside of the North East, encountering storytellers, priests and a shaman. Show more
Andrew Scott, Ray Fearon, Hayley Atwell and Colin Morgan star in Shakespeare's drama of debt, greed and a society suspicious of religious difference, transposed to London in 2008. Show more
This week we are in the Concert Hall of French Radio in Paris. Emmanuel Krivine conducts the French National Orchestra in music by Richard Strauss and Franz Liszt. Show more
Early Music Late
The Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin play Vivaldi's Four Seasons
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3
French violinist Amandine Beyer directs the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin in a Sinfonia by Fasch, and is the soloist in Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Introduced by Simon Heighes. Show more
Elizabeth Alker introduces music by an exciting new generation of composers and performers who are breaking free of the constraints of practice rooms and concert halls. Show more
Through the Night
John Shea with concert recordings from Barcelona and around Europe
6 hours
on BBC Radio 3
From the 'El Primer Palau' competition in Barcelona, a recital with Mercedes Gancedo and pianist Beatriz Miralles. Presented by John Shea. Show more
