Petroc Trelawny Breakfast with the Friday Poem and the next American Portrait, music reflecting Radio 3's series The Way I See It. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Avril in Aberdeen, Angela Hewitt
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein. Show more
Donald MacLeod explores Muzio Clementi's role as teacher to pianist and composer John Field, the pair's travels together, and how their friendship deteriorated. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Bartok Plus from LSO St Luke's in London with the Arcadia Quartet
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
The exciting young Romanian ensemble, Arcadia Quartet, play Bartok's String Quartet No 4 alongside Enescu and Janacek, placing Bartok's works in a wider Central European context. Show more
Works by Weber, Richard Strauss, Mussorgsky and Janacek with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Liebrich. Plus music by Novak and Suk under Ondrej Lenard. Show more
How hard is it to achieve meaningful musical simplicity? Why, like some movements in the visual arts, has musical simplicity flourished in the 20th and 21st centuries? Show more
Sean Rafferty talks to pianist and broadcaster Una Hunt about Wexford Festival Opera, and there's live music from the Lipatti Piano Quartet and The Ben Somers String Band. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix including music by Chopin, Ligeti, Mozart and Irving Berlin fit to bring a rainy week to an end.
The Vertavo String play Bartók's 5th and 6th String Quartets, which he composed after emigrating to the United States, alongside Dvořák's String Quartet in F major, the 'American'. Show more
Ian McMillan on writing inspired by molluscs (snails, slugs and cockles) He's joined by novelist Jill Dawson, poets Isabel Galleymore and Kate Fox, and Richard Gameson. Show more
Radio 3 presents a radiophonic art exhibition, as 30 of the world’s most creative minds choose a favourite work from the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Ep5 Pinker and Picasso. Show more
Verity Sharp plays the unpronounceable and genre-free from the notorious Nurse with Wound list, a selection of records so obscure and sought-after it passed into mythology. Show more
John Wilson conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. With Jonathan Swain. Show more
