Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Record Review
Andrew McGregor with Kirsten Gibson and Nicholas Kenyon
3 hours, 13 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Building a Library: Kirsten Gibson surveys the recordings of Purcell's King Arthur, and Bach 333, which contains every known note written by J S Bach, 333 years after his birth. Show more
Tom Service discusses Beethoven at the keyboard with pianist Angela Hewitt, and meets Ewan Campbell to discuss musical maps - radical scores from the Middle Ages to today. Show more
Clarinettist Michael Collins guides us through a colourful array of music, revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light. Show more
Matthew Sweet presents a special programme from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London exploring the nature and function of modern video gaming music. Show more
Jazz records from across the genre, as requested by Radio 3 listeners.
Drummer of the moment Mark Guiliana performs live at Ronnie Scott’s in London with his jazz quartet. Plus LA piano player and beatmaker Kiefer on his musical inspirations. Show more
Opera on 3: Wagner's Ring Cycle
Wagner's Ring Cycle: Das Rheingold
2 hours, 59 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Das Rheingold, the first of the four operas comprising Wagner's Ring cycle, from the Royal Opera House with John Lundgren starring as Wotan, and conducted by Antonio Pappano. Show more
Between the Ears goes between JG Ballard's ears with two new binaural adaptations of his short fiction, Track 12 and Venus Smiles, musically mutating art, microsonics and murder. Show more
Robert Worby introduces a concert by the Mark Knoop Supergroup including the works of Hermann Meier, Catherine Lamb and Robert Ashley. Show more
Geoffrey Smith celebrates a master theorist and reinventor of jazz harmony, George Russell. Show more
Violin sonatas by Beethoven and Brahms performed in Romania by violinist Volkhard Steude and pianist Catalina Butcaru. John Shea presents. Show more
