Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, including a Sunday morning Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning. Show more
Michael Berkeley’s guest is Stephen Schwartz, the leading composer and lyricist of American musical theatre. With music by Bach, Copland, Beethoven, and Puccini. Show more
From Wigmore Hall, Radio 3 New Generation Artist Alessandro Fisher is joined by world-renowned accompanist Roger Vignoles to sing Schumann, Grieg, Delius and de Frumerie. Show more
Lucie Skeaping is joined by Gabriel Crouch and Magnus Williamson to discuss music surrounding the fascinating hopes and tragedies of Queen Mary I's 'phantom pregnancy' of 1555. Show more
An archive recording from Birmingham Cathedral Show more
Alyn Shipton presents listeners' requests, which this week include recordings by Coleman Hawkins, Dave Brubeck, Jimmy Smith and Mary Lou Williams.
The Listening Service
Sonata Form - or There and Back Again
29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
In this edition of The Listening Service, Tom Service explores sonata form, used by composers to tell compelling musical stories. How can you hear them? How is it done? Show more
Words and Music on the theme of mothers and daughters, with readers Samantha Bond and Molly Hanson. Show more
Corin Throsby on the gripping story behind Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Show more
World premiere of Anthony Burgess's Schreber, inspired by a landmark psychiatric case. Starring Christopher Eccleston. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Ravel, Shostakovich and Grieg from Germany and New Zealand
2 hours, 29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Highlights of concerts from two festivals in Germany, St Paul, Minnesota, and Wellington, New Zealand, care of the European Broadcasting Union. Introduced by Fiona Talkington. Show more
Slow Radio taps into an archive of recordings from across the globe of the sound of rain on tin roofs, corrugated iron and rippling plastic. Show more
Journalist, academic and author Bolu Babalola tries Clemmie's classical playlist, which takes in fairy tales, yearning Harlem poetry and popular High Life melodies from Nigeria. Show more
Lars Vogt plays Schubert Impromptus and Bach Goldberg Variations. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more
