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 works by Scarlatti and Sarri. Her Sunday Escape is by Respighi. Show more
Bestselling children’s author Julia Donaldson talks to Michael Berkeley about her musical passions and how she came to writing via working as a busker in Paris. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Wigmore Monday Lunchtimes: Karina Gauvin and Maciej Pikulski
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin, live in concert from Wigmore Hall, London, performing songs by Hahn, Debussy, Poulenc and Bizet. Show more
The Early Music Show
Couperin's Lecons de Tenebres
20 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Hannah French explores Francois Couperin's extraordinarily dark and powerful vocal music for Holy Week, his settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, the Lecons de Tenebres. Show more
Live from Blackburn Cathedral. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces an hour of irresistible music for voices featuring dancing Gypsies, a vocal Mozart symphony and a lily in your hand. Show more
Tom Service explores the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and asks whether this musical vision of utopia is more dangerous than the composer could ever have imagined. Show more
As autumn arrives and the trees change colour, a selection of music, poetry and prose to reflect this evocative season. Poetry read by Lesley Sharp and Julian Wadham. Show more
Hetta Howes with the stories of the Passion as dreamed by medieval devouts and Eleanor Lybeck on her Great Grandfather's Gilbert and Sullivan past. Show more
Phoebe Fox, Francesca Annis and Paul Ready star in the world premiere of a newly discovered play by Edith Wharton from 1901. Former nurse Kate Derwent carries a terrible secret. Show more
Kate Molleson presents the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Daniele Gatti, performing Beethoven's Symphony No 4 in E flat. Show more
Euskal Baroque Ensemble performs early music from around the Med in a concert called Un Compas. Elin Manahan Thomas presents. Show more
Sensuous guitar, passionate hair and a singing audition in Ann Summers. Writer, podcaster and music-lover Dolly Alderton tries out Clemmie's personalised classical playlist. Show more
John Shea presents the Prometeo Quartet in a performance of Verdi, Debussy and Scarlatti. Show more
