Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Sarah Walker with a broad range of music, including her Sunday Escape. Show more
Michael Berkeley’s guest is folk singer Bella Hardy, whose work reflects her heritage in the Peak District and her travels as far afield as Nashville and China. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Wigmore Monday Lunchtimes: Ilker Arcayurek and Ammiel Bushakevitz
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Live from Wigmore Hall, London. The new season of lunchtime chamber music concerts opens with tenor Ilker Arcayurek performing an all-Schubert programme. Show more
Lucie Skeaping, with expert advice from Simon Heighes, considers the background, purpose and music of JS Bach's last great masterpiece, The Art of Fugue Show more
Live from the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents choral music for Sunday afternoon, including Faure's nightmarish vision of infernal genies, and boisterous Bohemian celebrations courtesy of Dvorak Show more
Fascinating and intricate patterns or the emperor's new clothes? What is minimalism in music and how do you listen to it? Show more
Lindsey Marshal and Richard Harrington are the readers in a programme that explores the mysterious link between wisdom and innocence. Show more
Nature has been woven into our cultural heritage for generations, but as species disappear around the world, are we losing our natural inspiration for art, music and literature? Show more
Two young women travel round Europe, when a painful past tests their friendship. An Imison Award winning two-hander by new writer Lulu Raczka. Show more
Drama from Edinburgh's Summerhall. Poet Jacob Polley's drama tells the story of boyhood friends Wen and Jackself with soundscape and music composed and performed by John Alder. Show more
A new comedy by Karen Laws about the philosophy of sound. Do we all hear things the same way? Can we be tricked into hearing what isn’t there? Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Gil Shaham, SWR Symphony Orchestra, RTVE Symphony Orchestra
1 hour, 29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Mozart's Symphony No 29 and Violin Concerto No 1 with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and soloist Gil Shaham, plus Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 5 from RTVE Symphony Orchestra. Show more
Elin Manahan Thomas introduces a concert of Bach's orchestral suites given by the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra in Ljubljana. Show more
Elizabeth Alker with a new series of music by an exciting generation of unclassified composers and performers, breaking free of the constraints of practice rooms and concert halls. Show more
John Shea presents a choral concert from Sweden, including works by Sven-David Sandstrom, JS Bach and Byrd, performed by the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir and Fredrik Malmberg. Show more
