Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
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Sarah Walker with a broad range of music, including her Sunday Escape. Show more
Michael Berkeley’s guest is neuroscientist Anil Seth. Music by Bach, Chopin and Nina Simone. Show more
Guitarist Thibaut Garcia plays works by Barrios Mangore, Bach and Tansman at Wigmore Hall in London. Show more
The Early Music Show
Firework Music for Bonfire Night
28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
On the day before Bonfire Night, Hannah French explores music for fireworks, with music by Corelli, Bach, Rameau, Gluck and Handel's celebrated Music for the Royal Fireworks Show more
From the Chapel of St John’s College, Cambridge, during the 2018 Cambridge Choral Course. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces an hour of irresistible music for organ featuring a barrel organ monkey, an organ duet by JC Bach and an annotated improvisation by Tournemire. Show more
The Listening Service
What's the Point of the Conductor?
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service explores the role of the conductor. Is it to do with their ego, clothes, ability to beat time or their emotional outpouring onstage, or is it something else entirely? Show more
Go ape with Philip Franks and Rosalie Craig! A programme to launch you on a 'flung festoon half-way up to the jealous moon' with mischievous music to match. Show more
Dr Islam Issa investigates why Bin Laden did not like Shakespeare. Plus Dr Simon Beard poses the dilemma of loving your children, but questioning whether they are a moral mistake. Show more
In Elizabethan England, Fortunatus, a black Muslim refugee from Spain, takes drastic action to change the course of history. With Ray Fearon and John Heffernan. By Rex Obano. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Schumann Symphony No 3 'Rhenish'
1 hour, 29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Kate Molleson introduces performances of Bizet, Dvorak and Schumann from the national broadcasters of France, Romania and Switzerland. Show more
Early Music Late
Mezzogiorno: Medieval hymns and sacred chant from Italy and Sardinia
1 hour, 29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Medieval hymns and sacred chant from southern Italy and Sardinia performed by the Tiburtina Ensemble and presented by Elin Manahan Thomas. Show more
Entrepreneur, technology guru and vinyl junkie Rohan Silva tells Clemmie what he thought of her classical playlist and admits there might *just* be some decent music from pre-1960 Show more
A concert from the 5th International Harald Andersen Chamber Choir Competition in Helsinki. Presented by John Shea. Show more
