Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
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Sunday Morning
Sarah Walker with Josquin Des Prez, Cheryl Frances Hoad and Saint-Saëns
2 hours, 58 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Sarah Walker with a broad range of music, including works by Des Prez, Cheryl Frances Hoad, and Gustav and Imogen Holst. Her Sunday Escape features Saint-Saën’s Suite algérienne. Show more
Science writer and broadcaster James Burke tells Michael Berkeley about his musical childhood, love of Italy, and the music that reminds him of the Moon landings 50 years ago. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall, London, Imogen Cooper plays piano music by Brahms and Liszt. Show more
A concert of music from the time of Leonardo da Vinci given by the instrumentalists and vocalists of Ensemble Lucidarium at the York Early Music Festival. Show more
Live from Southwark Cathedral, marking the retirement of its director of music, Peter Wright. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces another selection of irresistible music for voices. Today, a sorrowful song from John Dowland and Bach takes us into battle alongside St. Michael. Show more
The Listening Service
What does ancient history really sound like?
29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
From tiny Paleolithic bone flutes to Rome's giant gladiatorial horns, what did ancient music sound like? Tom tries to find out, with composer Neil Brand and historian David Hendy. Show more
The Moon in all her silvery glory, with writers such as Wordsworth, composers such as Schubert and Schoenberg and the actors Patrick O'Kane and Fenellla Woolgar. Show more
Sunday Feature
Cold War in Full Swing - Louis Armstrong in the GDR
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Kevin Le Gendre discovers how Louis Armstrong came to play jazz in communist East Germany during the Cold War, when previously a passion for the music could land you in prison. Show more
Maxine Peake performs Shelley’s poem of protest, The Masque of Anarchy, with eyewitness accounts and ballads performed by Jason Done, Christine Bottomley and Jennifer Reid. Show more
Chopin's Buchholtz Warsaw piano, recreated for the first time, in a concert from Polish period ensemble Collegium 1704 and pianist Krzysztof Ksiazek. Show more
Soprano Magdalena Kozena and La Cetra perform in a concert that mines the dramatic wealth of early Italian opera. Show more
From timpani to timbales, crotales to cow bells, Colin Currie conjures up a spectacular range of music for percussion. Show more
Euphoric running, new discoveries and a rekindled love of classical - Davina McCall gets her Classical Fix. Show more
The Ebene Quartet perform Beethoven and Faure in Verbier. Presented by John Shea. Show more
